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The Ukrainian regime and European leaders are shocked by the talks, they consider them a disaster for Ukraine. They think that Trump agreed with Putin on almost everything,
he wrote
They will need to be trained at least a little so that they don’t die that quickly, and so by the end of June, [Moscow] may amass a new resource,
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Putin essentially uses Trump just to create a picture that Putin or Russia are ready to negotiate,
Anton Shekhovtsov, head of the Centre for Democratic Integrity, a Vienna-based think tank, told Al JazeeraHe wanted everyone [in the West] to step aside from Ukraine, so that there are no arms supplies, and then he could carry out yet another imperial takeover” of Ukrainian territories
he concludedThe talks won’t be talks because Moscow doesn’t want real talks with Kyiv,
Boris Bondarev told Al Jazeera
These were very successful talks. They may result in Ukrainian regime’s forced acceptance of Russia’s conditions, and thus peace will be reached,
Moscow-based analyst Sergey Markov wrote on Telegram on MondayApparently, Putin succeeded in nullifying a very disadvantageous initiative by Zelenskyy to immediately start a 30 days-long ceasefire,
he told Al JazeeraI don’t see what Putin can talk with Zelenskyy about, [as] Putin doesn’t consider Zelenskyy a person worthy of communication,
he added
Ukraine is but a tool, a proxy, a satellite that doesn’t decide a thing by itself.”
To PutinThis is an imitation so that someone in the West thinks that the peace process has begun, and that’s why there’s no need to help Ukraine, to pressure Putin and to impose new sanctions,
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Nobody is interested in dragging out this process,
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, when asked about when the memorandum could be expected
Nobody is interested in delaying the process. Everyone is working dynamically. We will keep you informed. Of course, most of this work is being done in a discreet mode, and it should not, for obvious reasons, be open to the public,
he said
I carry in my heart the sufferings of the beloved Ukrainian people. Let everything possible be done to achieve genuine, just and lasting peace as soon as possible,
he said
I don’t think he deliberately betrayed Europe. I believe he simply misjudged the negotiation situation with Vladimir Putin — and his own influence as the U.S. president,
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius told German public radio broadcaster Deutschlandfunk
That’s not how you start negotiations. And it’s a very weak position from which to pursue peace or ceasefire talks,
Pistorius addedI suspect he assessed his negotiating position incorrectly,
Boris Pistorius told the Deutschlandfunk radio broadcaster, following Trump's now-abandoned efforts to pressure Putin into accepting an unconditional 30-day ceasefire
If it is clear that the Russians are not interested in a peace deal and they just want to keep fighting a war, it may very well come to that point,
he noted, as quoted by Anadolu Agency
We await those terms, and then I'll have a much better understanding about Mr. Putin's calculation once we see what those terms look like,
he addedThe conditions for that [ending the war] will be negotiated between the two parties, as it can only be, because they know details of a negotiation that nobody else would be aware of,
he wrote
Russia must explicitly acknowledge the legitimacy of the Ukrainian president, government, and constitution and Ukraine’s sovereignty in order to engage in meaningful, good-faith negotiations.”
In its regular assessment, the Institute for the Study of War said on Tuesday