Putin says he is able to negotiate peace… beneath situations | EUROtoday
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“S“Are we ready to negotiate with them? We have never refused,” Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, September 5, at an economic forum in Vladivostok. “If a desire to negotiate emerges (in Ukraine), we will not refuse,” explained the Kremlin leader, assuring that he was open to talks with kyiv on the basis of those held a few months after the start of the Russian offensive on February 24, 2022.
Vladimir Putin refers to documents “that have been agreed upon and that have been de facto initialed in Istanbul.” These texts have never been made public, while the Ukrainian side has always denied any agreement. Moscow claims that a compromise was initialed, but that the West pushed kyiv to reject the agreement. Ukraine denies this version of events.
A change of position while Moscow still considered incompatible a few days ago such peace negotiations during the Ukrainian offensive against the Kursk region, launched in August and still ongoing. In June, Vladimir Putin had said that he would only end the conflict if Ukraine gave up its ambition to join NATO and gave it the four Ukrainian regions that it claims, in addition to the annexed Crimean peninsula. Conditions that are nothing less than a capitulation for kyiv.
Donbass, “priority number one” for Moscow
As Russian forces continue to strike Ukrainian cities and energy infrastructure with drones and missiles, they are advancing especially in Donbass, at a speed not seen since October 2023. “The enemy’s goal (in attacking Russia’s Kursk region) was to make us nervous and agitated to redeploy our troops from one area to another and stop our offensive in key areas, especially in Donbass, the liberation of which is our number one priority,” the Russian head of state explained.
An analysis of the offensive shared by several experts, but which is slow to bear fruit. The Ukrainian forces engaged in the Russian oblast are no longer progressing and control 1,200 square kilometers, at the cost of the loss of equipment. The Russian forces “have stabilized the state of affairs and have begun to regularly expel” the Ukrainian military, the Russian president even affirmed.
In Ukraine, voices are being raised to criticize this peripheral entrance technique whereas the Ukrainian models within the Donbass are in need of males and weapons. Several cities are threatened with encirclement, together with that of Pokrovsk, an necessary rail and street hub for Ukrainian logistics.
This push, nevertheless, comes at the price of horrible losses. The British Ministry of Defense in its newest bulletin estimates that 1,187 Russian troopers have been killed or wounded per day through the month of August. A price nonetheless above 1,000 within the first days of September. The offensives are carried out with out automobiles, in successive waves of infantry who benefit from thinned Ukrainian positions or modifications of models within the poorly coordinated entrance line.
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