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The latter not, since Russia still hasn't even declared war. Russia is at peace with Ukraine right now. (But at war with Japan. You thought WW2 was over?)

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The Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956 ended the state of war. The absence of a peace treaty primarily just leaves a few islands being left effectively in disputed territory status.

> Russia is at peace with Ukraine right now.

There is nothing peaceful about the Russian invasion of Ukraine outside of the pedantry of spoke claims of "being at peace".

Oh, I quite agree, there's nothing peaceful about it. But the formal state being what it is, it won't end a permanent formal state of war such as between the Koreas, or between Russia and Japan.

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