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This is a time in a ceasefire where things are the most sensitive and prone to derailment,
said Samuel Charap, a Russia analyst with the Rand think tank Everyone can see how much we can trust the word of Zelensky,
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin has no advantage here, so it is convenient for him to agree to a partial ceasefire in this area,
They are going to be proximity discussions … sort of like shuttle diplomacy in a hotel,
President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, said in an interview with ABC News Russia is again attacking civilian infrastructure,
Ukrainian presidential aide Andriy Yermak posted on Telegram What we saw last time was sabotage, deliberate attempts to push Ukraine out of global markets, and intentional delays,
he said of talks held in Istanbul earlier in the war Trump effectively deprives himself of leverage over him,
And when it comes to Putin ... he said The Prime Minister also outlined the new military sub-planning groups, across land, sea, air, regeneration and reconstruction, which would continue discussions across three intensive planning days next week,
The Russian federation is intensifying its discrediting campaign against Ukraine,
The easiest way for Russia to attain what it wants in a different country is not through military means, but through interference and electoral process,
I think that the fundamental point is that, as far as Trump is concerned, Ukraine is a bought and paid for vassal state and has to understand its place and accept that, essentially, America will work out some kind of a deal with Russia and then bring it back to Ukraine,
What he’s talking about is the fact that Russia and Ukraine and Belarus share a political ancestor called Rus … but it’s very much not the same thing as any modern country. It was an early to late medieval political entity and to say that Ukraine doesn’t have a right to exist because of this shared ancestor — no country looks the same as in the 10th century,
said Monica White, an associate professor in Russian and Slavonic Studies at the University of Nottingham For the Kremlin, it’s not a war with Ukraine, it’s a war with the West, and a lot of people in Moscow don’t really believe that they can get any kind of lasting agreement with the US,
It’s very personal to them because they were all young KGB officers back then, and they lost their social standing, they lost a place in Russian society, they lost the country as they describe it now, and it was extremely humiliating,
Putin is an opportunist. He likes creating dynamic, chaotic situations, which throw up a whole variety of opportunities. And then he can then just pick which opportunity appeals to him, and he can change his mind,
Putin was happy to throw all that away on behalf of his citizens because of higher geopolitical aims,
Putin went into Ukraine thinking that it will be an easy, quick operation. Three years on, he controls 20% of Ukraine, but at terrible, terrible cost. I mean, essentially the Russians are losing. The thing though is that the Ukrainians are losing faster,
leading Russia analyst Mark Galeotti told CNN After the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia lost its connection with the ancestral Orthodox lands and I think part of Putin’s project is to try to bring back that thread connecting 10th century Rus with this pure orthodox continuity,
Russia wants to be at all the important tables – so whatever comes next, maybe it doesn’t have to mean territorial conquest in Europe, but I think it does have to be in a starring role in the more powerful bloc, if it sees that to include China or Iran or others, a bloc that is defined by its willingness to disrupt and destabilize,
They think they can win some tactical battles but that he would not give them what they really want, which is a complete rearrangement of security arrangements in Europe,
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