On Friday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia’s military “operation” in Ukraine could end in the “foreseeable future” as goals are being reached and negotiations are ongoing.
“The operation continues; the goals are being achieved. Substantive work is being carried out both through the military in terms of advancing the operation, and through the negotiators who are in the negotiation process with Ukrainian counterparts,” Peskov told reporters.
“We are talking about the foreseeable future,” he added when asked for a timeline. According to Russia’s Tass news agency, Peskov was responding to questions about comments he made to Sky News a day earlier.
The Kremlin spokesman told Sky News on Thursday that Russia hopes “in coming days, in the foreseeable future, this operation will reach its goals or will finish it by the negotiations between Russian and Ukrainian delegation.”
Russia and Ukraine have been engaged in negotiations since around the time the fighting began on February 24. During talks in Turkey on March 29, Ukraine put forward a draft peace deal.
The potential agreement includes Kyiv giving up on its plans to join NATO. But in return, Ukraine wants security guarantees similar to NATO’s article 5 from Western powers, including the US and Britain, which is likely a non-starter for Moscow.
When it comes to the military campaign, Russia has said it’s now focusing on “liberating” the eastern Donbas region and has completely withdrawn its forces from areas in the north near the cities of Kyiv and Chernihiv.
“which is likely a non-starter for Moscow.”
Try to keep up. It’s already been explicitly refused by Lavrov.
Russian forces are increasingly refusing to reenter combat, and the Kremlin remains unlikely to quickly redeploy effective forces from northeastern Ukraine to operations in Donbas. More than 80% of personnel in some unspecified Russian units previously involved in combat operations are refusing to return to the front. Russian commanders are reportedly refusing to release soldiers whose service contracts have expired, forcing them to stay with their units.
An intercepted letter from Russian Chief of Missile Troops and Artillery Mikhail Matveevsky to several Russian training centers calling for further censorship of troops undergoing training, and encouraged propaganda highlighting the monetary benefits of serving in the war.
You believe MSMs. too much
You believe Russian state news too much.
You do know about their new law right?
Nothing fishy about that?
You don’t get Russian news. Or any real news. They are banished in your country. You see only the garbage churned out by your freeeeeeeeeee MSMs
Actually I see Russian news, and it’s sickening.
Tell me then, who is producing this “real” news??
Or shut that hole of yours.
Is it not sickening to see Victor Orban who won Hungarian election with 58% popular votes portrayed as “Authoritarian” by you freeeee MSMs.
Where doooo youuu get yoooour news from then??
If you want news will reach you
How?
I’m sure they do, but how do you access these news that are always true?
I have no interest in Hungary’s politics, neither do I care much about elections in Bulgaria or Romania.
But I do care and follow events every where. Not selective
Keep it up, comrade.
Do you ever see Russian or Chinese or any other news outlets other than what yahoo, Google, CNN, NBC MSNBC,other MSMs which churn out garbage. I watch all
Yes, and Global Times often block my comments.
So much for free speech…
Do you think antiwar.com does not block comments? Their are third rails here also
No, they don’t apply the same policy as Global Times does. Here comments are published immediately, at Global Times every comment must be approved before being published. You know, countries like China and Russia love to control what people post online. Get used to it…
So you say there is no moderator in antiwar.com. man global times is as transparent as antiwar. Why RT is banned in USA and the West, for flow of free information?
I know for a fact that my comments are posted directly here, whereas on Global Times they are always delayed a few minutes, pending approval. It even says so.
So please get real, the censure is obvious and real. No point in pretending otherwise.
RT isn’t banned in the USA.
Not banned but can’t access
I’m in the US. I’m watching RT right now.
https://www.rt.com/on-air/
Is there a “Made in Langley” label on this? It has become MSM’s principal supplier of raw materials.
In the end the Ukraine will continue to have Russia and Belorussia as direct neighbors. History has shown that defeated nations can recover and win. Recent example: Finland-Soviet Union.
Are you embedded in the operation or just accepting the Western media’s take on the war?
I’m embedded of course!
I assumed everyone on this forum was reporting first hand experiences, they all talk with such certainty and conviction.
Didn’t Lavrov have a stroke recently?
Maybe it was a mild one, but he hasn’t looked too well lately.
had a dream last night?
Apparently the poor man was lying on the floor for a few hours before they found him…
Yes, it has to be “guaranteed” by a non-nuclear power (s) and non-US client state or institution (cf. UN), yet with sufficient power to be a real guarantor. ….hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm … the Patriarch and Pope …???
A guarantee by the Pope? Wasn’t it Stalin who asked “how many divisions does the Pope have?”
It was ironic.
However, were there an institution, like the Church or University(s), committed to the supreme metaphysical value of Plato’s triad, it could supply the dialectical anti-thesis.
Major issue for every session: will Zelensky accept that Crimea will be a Russian Oblast forever? My hunch: he will get no after no after no from Putin.
Just make sure Zelensky is no longer around to take his clown act to the world. He is the main problem and needs to be eliminated.
No. He’s just an actor with multiple competing directors insisting on different scripts — and a group of critics who have vowed to kill him if they don’t like his performance.
The sooner this clown sees his final act the better.
Again: No. If Zelensky’s “final act” is his death or some other calamity while he occupies the world stage as a hero, he will become a martyr who will be used to inspire the mobs in support of the crusade to demonize, weaken and hopefully dismember Russia, for the benefit of US hegemony.
The cause of sanity and peace will be best served if Zelensky agrees to a negotiated settlement.
Yes Zelensky would become a saint just like George Floyd. However Zelensky is already anointed as a saint so eliminating him would be Schadenfreude for me.
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate in Zelensky and Ukrainians
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Nicely stated.
Easy solution eliminate Zelensky and declare all Ukrainian military who do not lay down their arms as targets for a free fire zone.
Western Ukraine becomes part of Hungary at the 1917 borders and Eastern Ukraine becomes part of Russia. Ukraine did not exist prior to 1917 and never should have become a country after the fall of the USSR.
Yes, but Russia still has hope the world will play ball with them. At this point any retreat will be end of Russia.
The Russians are delusional if they think this can be resolved diplomatically. I guess 8 years of failed diplomacy with the Minsk agreements was nit enough.
Steps to end the special operation in Ukraine. 1. Eliminate Zelensky 2. Give Western Ukraine to Hungary. 3. Give Eastern Ukraine to Russia. 4. Put Zelensky on trial for war crimes. 5. Eliminate Zelensky.
Russia got its ass kicked. The defeat in Kyiv got them to rethink the entire strategy. Donbass may be a repeat with low moral among soldiers. Putin, The De-Nazifier has become De-Nazified. It’s what happens when half your military is rehearsing for parades year round.