While carefully avoiding an outright rejection of US ceasefire proposals, Moscow is playing for time

Summary

Vladimir Putin responded to Ukraine’s US-backed ceasefire proposal by imposing strict conditions, including a halt to Kyiv’s military aid and mobilization, while continuing Russia’s own rearmament.

His calculated stance prolongs negotiations without outright rejecting Donald Trump’s initiative, which seeks to end the war while pressuring Ukraine.

Putin also demands Ukraine’s demilitarization, exclusion from NATO, and recognition of Russian territorial claims.

Trump, with limited leverage, may shift toward aligning with Putin’s terms. Meanwhile, Ukraine fears the ceasefire could allow Russia to regroup and intensify its offensive.

    • NoiseColor @lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      Without giving Ukrainians real safety guarantees, they will never stop fighting. Russia knows that. If they don’t accept safety guarantees they are saying, they want to war more.

      • alkbch@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        1 hour ago

        They will never stop fighting? Ukraine can’t win a war of attrition against Russia.

          • alkbch@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            51 minutes ago

            Even with the West’s support Ukraine has been losing ground. Imagine without the US support…

            • NoiseColor @lemmy.worldEnglish
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              23 minutes ago

              With limited support, while Russia has been losing an unsustainable amount of manpower to occupy less that 1% of the territory in a year. Losing US support will be really bad, but right now the frontlines have been fortified and Ukraine has built up a lot of weapons industry to produce it’s own weapons. I’m not saying it’s going to be easy without US support (even though we cannot say 100% that is really going to happen), what I’m saying is that the situation is way way way more nuanced and complicated than you are claiming.