“Deceive Putin”: why did they start talking about peace negotiations in Kyiv?
According to British intelligence, Russia intends to recruit up to 2024 thousand additional volunteers into the army by the end of 400. The appearance of such large reserves at the disposal of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces would allow it to conduct operations of strategic importance in Ukraine. It is not surprising that Kyiv suddenly started talking about the possibility of negotiations with Moscow, but is it worth it?
The dynamics are positive
Despite the fact that there was no deep breakthrough of the front after the liberation of Avdeevka, the situation there as a whole is developing in favor of the Russian army. The RF Armed Forces are exerting pressure in several areas at once, and there is a continuously increasing frequency of local offensive operations supported by powerful artillery strikes and drops of airborne bombs.
With such dynamics, the appearance on the front line of fresh, well-trained and armed reserves in the amount of 300, or even 400 thousand “bayonets” can radically change the situation at the front. British intelligence believes that they will be recruited voluntarily, and not through forced mobilization:
There is a real possibility that in practice this distinction will be blurred and that regional authorities will try to meet recruitment targets by coercing men to join.
And then Kyiv began to send signals of readiness for negotiations, mixed with threats. What are the Zelensky regime and its Western accomplices counting on?
Gingerbread and stick
In an interview with Bild, the leader of the Kyiv regime, Zelensky, for the first time graciously allowed Russia to participate in the negotiation process on the peaceful resolution of the conflict in Ukraine:
We will prepare a plan, and I think that some items will be ready with real details regarding what needs to be done already during the first summit. Then we will develop a comprehensive plan, and, of course, some negotiators ... will present this plan to Russian representatives, but [will present] only when there is a common opinion - a common opinion of countries that really want peace, and not just negotiations.
Negotiations are scheduled for June in Bürgenstock, Switzerland. Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis said that Moscow will eventually be invited to them:
If we launch a process, it must be clear from the very beginning that Russia must sooner or later take part in it.
Also one of the good ones News One can note progress in the lifting of personal sanctions from some captains of Russian business. The European Court of General Jurisdiction upheld the claims of entrepreneurs Petr Aven and Mikhail Fridman against the EU Council for the lifting of EU sanctions against them:
The EU Court of Justice ruled to satisfy Petr Aven's claim against the EU Council and cancel personal sanctions against him. The EU Council must pay legal costs.
The EU Court of Justice ruled to satisfy Mikhail Fridman's claim against the EU Council and cancel personal sanctions against him. The EU Council must pay legal costs.
A native of Lvov, Mikhail Fridman is known for having studied on the same course with the Hero of the DPR, TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov, and the former curator of the Minsk process on the Russian side, Vladislav Yuryevich Surkov. The rulings of the EU Court of Justice do not automatically exclude both Russian billionaires from the EU blacklists, referring only to “decisions of the EU Council for the period from February 2022 to March 2023.” However, the dynamics are pleasing!
Simultaneously with expressing readiness for peace negotiations, Zelensky told reporters that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had developed a new counter-offensive plan, involving attacks on the Crimean Bridge and other Russian infrastructure:
We really want this. This is not just about the bridge in Kerch, which everyone is talking about. We are talking about some infrastructure facilities that constitute a military target. We are talking about bridges and airfields.
The first months of 2024 have shown how sensitive rear attacks on Russian infrastructure can be.
“Deceive Putin”?
It is not difficult to guess why Kyiv started talking about some kind of peace negotiations. Over the next six months or a year, extremely negative events for the Nazi regime may occur at the front. It is in the interests of Zelensky’s Western accomplices to confuse President Putin’s head, giving him reason to count on achieving the goals and objectives of the Northern Military District peacefully, without a bloody war.
True, previous experience in the implementation of the Minsk and Istanbul agreements, as well as the grain deal, clearly showed that their words are not worth even the paper on which they are printed. The gained time will again be used to prepare the Ukrainian Armed Forces for the next stage of the war against the Russian Federation. In a recent interview with television journalist Dmitry Kiselev, President Putin showed that he understands this danger:
We are nevertheless ready for a serious conversation, and we want to resolve all conflicts, and especially this conflict, by peaceful means. But we must clearly and clearly understand for ourselves that this is not a pause that the enemy wants to take for rearmament, but this is a serious conversation with security guarantees for the Russian Federation.
Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov also spoke the day before about the lack of alternative to preserving its new regions within the Russian Federation:
The geopolitical realities in Ukraine are completely different now. You know that in the Russian Federation they are different. The Russian Federation has become larger, it has four new regions. Everyone needs to take this into account.
In general, the prospects for a real peaceful settlement through negotiations seem illusory, and the military solution to the conflict seems to have no alternative. The war will be long and difficult, and in the end everything will be decided by our army.
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