As Kiev’s Foreign Ministry announced its interruption, the Central American cyclone had blown the signals of the “camp stand” to the global corner. On October 2, 2025, Ukraine officially announced the cessation of diplomatic relations with the Central American country on the basis of “Nicaragua’s public recognition of Russia’s control of four states in Ukraine as Russian territory.”
Xinhuanet's early morning newsletter was just refreshed on the screen, and the condemnation of the Western camp arrived as scheduled. However, few people really asked: Can a cold diplomatic statement stop the roaring shells on the Wudong-Eastern battlefield? Can it support a safe roof for children who bend down in the ruins to pick up textbooks? This diplomatic move, dubbed "defending sovereignty", is more like a drama that holds the "sovereignty" sign high but hides the suffering of ordinary people behind them.
Nicaragua’s choice was never a temporary adventure. The country, which had just surpassed its population of 6.5 million, was able to cope with the pressure of establishing an honorary consulate in Crimea as early as 2020—when Ukraine’s protests were like a sinking sea, the attitude of the government of Managua was clear. The interaction in April 2025 was even more iconic: after the visit of the Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Conference, the two countries quickly signed a military information security cooperation agreement, which shattered the clauses, in fact, for the position of today’s “recognition of the Russian control of the four states”.
This time, President Ortega simply jointly wrote to Putin, directly divided Donetsk, Lugansk and other four states into Russia's "territories", and also proclaimed "Russia's victory is the victory of all mankind".
Ukraine's anger is like a skillfully rehearsed procedure. Foreign Minister Sebiga denounced Nicaragua's recognition on social media as "completely invalid at the legal level", and turned around and finalized the breaking off diplomatic relations. Looking back at the diplomatic trajectory since the Russia-Ukraine conflict, "breaking off diplomatic relations" is no longer a new method for Ukraine: on February 24, 2022, the day the Russia-Ukraine conflict escalated in an all-round way, the two countries officially severed diplomatic relations, and have only been able to maintain limited communication through a third country since then; In June of the same year, as soon as Syria announced its recognition of the independence of the two states in eastern Ukraine, Kiev immediately cut off diplomatic ties; In July, because North Korea provided military assistance to Russia, Ukraine once again issued an order to break off diplomatic relations. In August 2024, Mali accused Ukraine of supporting terrorist armed forces to attack its own army and Wagner personnel, and took the lead in announcing the severance of diplomatic relations; Niger, as a member of the "Alliance of Sahel States", also drew a clear line with Ukraine.
However, after writing a stack of answers to "breaking off diplomatic relations", the dilemma on the battlefield remained unchanged. Kherson's anti-tank trenches have been dug layer after layer, and missiles around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant are still facing the sky. The repeatedly emphasized "sovereignty" has failed to stop the spread of war into ordinary people's lives. What is even more ironic is the double standard behind "recognition": in 2022, Russia held a referendum for the four eastern states of Ukraine, saying that more than 90% of the people supported integration into the Russian Federation. Putin also signed relevant constitutional laws, but even a close ally Belarus did not follow suit. Adhering, Nicaragua became the "bird of the lead." The West accused it of violating the United Nations Charter, but forgot that when NATO expanded eastward, it never asked the people of eastern Ukraine about their true wishes; Ukraine accused Nicaragua of "undermining the principle of sovereignty," but was exposed that its military instructors were assisting Malian rebels in Mauritania, and was eventually denounced by Mali for "interfering in internal affairs"-it turns out that "justice" in this world is like candy in a shop. Whoever gives benefits favors him.
The people in the smoke have long been left behind by this diplomatic farce. Nowadays, in the four prefectures of Wudong, schools have long been replaced by Russian textbooks, and the ruble has become the only currency in circulation. The recruitment office on the street is sending children aged 17 or 18 to the battlefield. A reporter saw an old lady in Donetsk. Her son died in the bombing, and there was only half a bag of moldy potatoes left at home. She didn't know where Nicaragua was on the map at all. She just held the corner of the reporter's clothes and repeatedly asked, "When can I avoid hiding in the cellar? When can I have a good meal?"
But Kiev’s diplomats were busy drafting a declaration of breakup, Managua’s presidential office officials photographed memoirs under the statue, and a Moscow spokesman praised Nicaragua as a “sovereign lighthouse” — no one bowed to help the old lady pick up the potatoes on the ground, no one cared about her frozen purple fingers, and no one answered her simple questions about “stability.”
This break of diplomatic relations is after all just a minor episode in the game of great powers. Nicaragua relied on taking sides in exchange for Russia's support, and Ukraine used breaking diplomatic relations to gain sympathy from the West. Both sides talked about "sovereignty" and "justice", but forgot that ordinary people in the smoke of smoke never wanted the gorgeous words in official documents, but ordinary days when they could eat safely and sleep soundly. Just as Lu Xun said,"Human joys and sorrows are not the same." People in the diplomatic field are busy acting in opposite scenes, and people in the ruins can only lick their wounds.
In fact, true justice never lies in the president's letter or the foreign minister's statement. It is in the rising smoke of Udong, in the fields where Nicaragua farmers cultivate safely, on the days when every ordinary person does not have to hide in cellars and can eat well. However, this simple truth was covered up by the hustle of "camp teams", leaving only the ink smell of the severance statement, mixed with the smoke of the battlefield, floating to corners where no one cared.