Ukraine: The Kremlin’s cynicism | EUROtoday

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov supplied one other instance of the Putin regime’s cynicism when he accused Ukraine on Friday of utilizing “constant provocations” to torpedo talks about ending the battle. It could also be that Ukraine is definitely behind the assault on the deputy head of Russian army intelligence in Moscow.

But Moscow’s accompaniment to the negotiations in Abu Dhabi makes it clear who has no real interest in negotiations right here: it consists of utilizing air strikes to deprive tons of of 1000’s of individuals of heating within the coldest winter in a few years and to shoot at civilians on a passenger prepare, in a market and on a bus on the way in which dwelling from work.

The Russian regime alone began this battle, it might additionally finish it. But it does not need that, as might be seen from the Kremlin’s continuously repeated method that its calls for might be enforced on the battlefield if Ukraine doesn’t settle for Russian calls for. Moscow solely received concerned within the negotiation course of initiated by Donald Trump as a result of it hopes to get the USA on its aspect. Chancellor Friedrich Merz is due to this fact proper when he warns to not hope for an early finish to the battle.