As Russian forces are capturing more territory in eastern Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin is willing to end the war across the current frontlines, according to Reuters. Ukrainian officials rejected the offer.
Four sources speaking with Reuters said that Putin was prepared to freeze war along the current frontlines but was willing to keep fighting if Ukraine and its Western backers rejected the offer for negotiations. “Putin can fight for as long as it takes, but Putin is also ready for a ceasefire – to freeze the war,” one source said, describing Putin’s position.
When asked by Reuters about talks, Putin responded, “Let them resume.”
The sources speaking with Reuters say that the Russian leader is prepared to assess the territory that has been captured as a victory. “Putin will say that we won, that NATO attacked us and we kept our sovereignty, that we have a land corridor to Crimea, which is true,” one source said.
The offer for an end to the conflict comes as Ukraine struggles to find enough men to fight off the advancing Russian forces, and the West is unable or unwilling to provide Kiev with enough arms.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba quickly dismissed the idea of negotiations with Russia. “Putin currently has no desire to end his aggression against Ukraine. Only the principled and united voice of the global majority can force him to choose peace over war,” he said.
Since the start of the war in 2022, Russia has captured and annexed four regions in southern and eastern Ukraine. In April of that year, Moscow and Kiev nearly inked a deal that would have allowed those four regions to remain part of Ukraine in exchange for Kiev’s neutrality. However, President Zelensky, encouraged by his Western backers, refused the deal.
Zelensky later signed a decree banning any negotiations with Putin’s government.
Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com, news editor of the Libertarian Institute, and co-host of Conflicts of Interest.
The war mongering empire does not want peace. It wants regime change in Russia.
This warmongering empire is desperately seeking its waterloo, and may take us all down with it.
They have already taken us down and, lacking any evidence to the contrary, they’re quite content remaining on tack to a crash landing.
That’s what the idiots in the Kremlin don’t understand
Why would you guys give me a thumbs down when you know I’m right? You just don’t want criticism of Russia
Perhaps you aren’t familiar with the concept of a government which is measured in the scope of its conversations with idiots who possess a predisposition for violence.
There’s no point in talking to NATO and Israel. The only language they understand is force. Diplomacy and restraint make Russia look weak and bring NATO escalation.
This is the Deep State’s 30 year project. It started in 1991 when the USSR fell. Their objective was always to bring down Russia. Everyone knew from 1991 that Ukraine is Russia’s Achilles Heel, since Russia can never and will never accept the loss of Ukraine. And in 2016, the election of Trump threatened the entire life’s work of the Deep State Intelligence Community. That is why they took such extraordinary measures to get rid of him.
” That is why they took such extraordinary measures to get rid of him.”
It goes back to 1551 and the incorporation of The Muscovy Company.
According to wishful thinking of Reuters, Putin is willing to end the war across the current frontlines. In reality, it is impossible because according to Russian constitution, the whole Donetsk republic, the whole Kherson and Zaporoshskaya oblasts, which are currently partially occupied by Ukrainian army, are Russian territories. Ukraine and NATO can have it only after defeating Russian army. Putin never said that he is ready to refuse those territories. Even more: Putin repeatedly claimed the ownership of Odessa oblast and other historically Russian lands. Russia is ready for negotiations but not for the freeze of the military activities.
It is not unclear outside Western filtering. Russia is speaking of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhia and Crimea.
Crimea and Luhansk republic are under Russian control. The other 3 regions are only partially under Russian control. In any negotiations Russia will demand, as minimum, full control of those 3 regions too.
Gli Stati Uniti valutavano di
infiltrare incursori e destabilizzare l’Ucraina già nel
1957
English – machine translation (US)
The United States valued to
Infiltrate raiders and destabilize Ukraine
already in 1957
English (US)
U.S. operations to destabilize Ukraine and drive it away from Moscow have already started in the early stages of the Cold War, at least at the planning level. According to American analysts, an anti-Soviet uprising would have enjoyed broad support in several areas of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine, and the dividing line between “for” and “against” Moscow would have followed roughly the same border that today separates the Donbass people’s republics of Donetsk and Luhansk (DPR and LPR) and Crimea from the rest of Ukraine.
This is what emerges from a study on “The resistance factors and areas of special forces operations in Ukraine – 1957”, commissioned by the US Army to the Georgetown University Research Project. A study that recalls in the themes and in the analytical approach those of the Soviet ones that emerged after the fall of the USSR and the Warsaw Pact in which the possibilities of infiltrating raiders and cheering riots in the European member states of NATO were evaluated.
https://www.analisidifesa.it/2022/12/gli-stati-uniti-valutavano-di-infiltrare-incursori-e-destabilizzare-lucraina-gia-nel-1957/
That’s our MO baby! How could we not be loved around the world when we take a healthy multicultural society, apply enough money and human engineering to divide, destabilize, and make it ready for a homegrown revolution we’re oh so helpful to support with more money and resources 🙂
Yes. And with inverted totalitarianism, they are doing the same to citizens of the US. Polarization and chaos, so that there can not be a collective force of resistance.
This country is not that complicated. Take it’s whole herd of soulless greedy capitalists to a lake, rig them up with weights and toss them in.
Unburdened by the weight of a conscience the most treacherous and ruthless with the biggest egos and least principles will float to the top. There are the donors that will set government policy for the next 2 generations 🙂
Why do you think culture wars have become ever more extreme from both sides of the uniparty? Are you familiar with Wolin?
With the ironic twist that the supposedly left-wing progressivists are the most vocal proponents of identitarian politics and thus the most divisive agents. They are accelerating the polarization here and we are not far away from a new civil war.
I think both sides are phucked in the brain with culture wars.
They tried that from 1947 to 1956. Ukraine lost 200,000 people trying that. If the US army in 1957 thinks that is a good idea, it illustrates how stupid the US military is, as Martyanov says every day.
Because of too many historical lies, we don’t know exactly where passed the borders of Russia before the installation of Romanov dynasty, but in the last four hundred years, west-Ukrainian regions got under Moscow control first in 1939 and then after the end of WW II. Before the partition of Poland at the end of 18th century, most of modern west-Ukrainian lands belonged to Poland. From the end 18th century until the end of WW I, they belonged to Austria, Hungary and Romania (Romania got independence from Ottoman Empire in 19th century). At the end of 19th century, Austrians employed professor Grushevsky to create Ukrainian language. Before that, Slavic Orthodox population of those lands was considered Russians or Ruthenians depending on political preferences. After being more than a century under the rule of Poland, many Polish words were introduced in their language, so the locals used a kind of Russian dialect different from Moscow standard. After WW I, Bolsheviks also employed Grushevsky for the same purpose and created Ukrainian republic, adding to it a lot of lands which had nothing to do with historical Ukraine or historical Malorossiya (divide and rule). So the process of Ukrainization of the territory of modern Ukraine lasted about one and a half century non-stop. Still ethnic Russians regions used mostly Russian language. The rest was bilingual. After the collapse of USSR, the political preferences divided Ukraine in two halves: pro-Russian and pro-western. US contributed a lot for creation of hostility between those two halves. Now, unfortunately, everything is decided on the battlefields.
I believe a border was agreed upon in 1999 by all parties. How about we just stick with that? In the border regions what “wrong” are you trying to right? Is it wrong for a village to be 51% ethnic Russian and be in Ukraine? Does that need to be addressed by force of arms? There is going to be no amount of killing and war that will arrive at a solution if this is the way people think.
After sponsored by US far-right coup 2014, Crimea and Donbass refused to recognize a new Russo-phobic government which was installed in breach of Constitution. Why they should? Donetsk oblast voted over 90% for Yanukovich. According to Ukrainian constitution he was the legal president of Ukraine. Then the new pro-American government started a terror campaign against the regions who refused to recognize the neo-Nazi government. Controlled by Kiev regime air forces were used against civilians. Donbass and Crimea people had no choice but to fight for the rights and their existence. Now you are talking about borders. What borders?
Of course Russia is willing to have a cease fire in place. Russia needs to rearm and reconstitute its army. It won’t end the war, though.
Who told you that Russia is willing to have a ceasefire? Stoltenberg?
I never heard anything like that from Russian politicians.
Putin can end the war any time by withdrawing to the current internationally recognized borders of Ukraine. The Ukrainians have proven that they are determined to resist the Russian invasion and that they will resist with or without US/NATO aid. It is only a matter of time until Russia gets a leadership that realizes Russia will never be able to pacify any part of Ukraine except possibly Crimea. The invasion was a terrible mistake.
Keep dreaming.
NATO encroachment was a terrible mistake too. And there will be no peace even if Russia agreed to withdraw to the current internationally recognized borders of Ukraine. Because for Russia to do that the US/NATO would have to be willing to admit their fault in provoking Russia for 30 plus years and that isn’t going to happen.
The Ukrainians have experienced a major diaspora, of masses fleeing the brutal conscription in a losing war they do not want to fight.
Don’t confuse Zelensky with real people. He is not loved or respected. This is like claiming the totality of the US population supports never ending wars. They don’t.
Ukrainian conscription, Odessa
https://twitter.com/narrative_hole/status/1787785877881799104
As estimated by some Ukrainian experts, about 300 thousand civilians migrated from Odessa city in 2014-2015. It looks, most of them migrated to Russia. In 2014-2015 it wasn’t so difficult as now.
The US/NATO overthrew the legitimate government in Ukraine in 2014. That began a CIVIL war. The current Ukrainian state is a puppet of Washington DC. Funded and armed by the US/NATO.
The fake Representative Democracy of the USA and it’s EU vassal states are run by an alliance between corporations and various governments that is fascistic. The strings that control this alliance are held by oligarchs.
Pretending that there is some political entity of Ukraine is meaningless. The Ukrainian population is controlled. To one degree or another the same is true of all the countries on the planet. Unfortunately for the people within the former boundaries of Ukraine, they are in the grip of particularly evil.
US taxpayers are funding this conflict under the guise of “helping”. This continues the pattern of aggression and control by Washington DC hegemonic psychopaths.
You’re seriously bent. People who think like you are historically illiterate.
Obviously you do not subscribe to the notion that effects have causes. Instead you operate on the assumption that since Russia crossed a border to assert herself, events which led up to that point instantly become irrelevant. This is a symptom of a transactional personality.
You have my sympathies in an abstract sort of way.
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Max Blumenthal y @MaxBlumenthal
Only 35% of Ukrainian men are prepared to serve if called up, according to a February poll by a Kiev-based firm.
10h
Those numbers would have undoubtedly decreased in the ensuing months.
reuters.com/world/europe/ukr.
No he’s not. But he was willing to make the offer, knowing that Ukraine and the West would reject it. Those “sources” are just spreading propaganda. Russia’s security can not be guaranteed without taking Ukraine off the board permanently and I assume Putin has been told so by the General Staff after his ridiculous plan to scare Ukraine into accepting “Minsk II” back in March-April, 2022.
Total nonsense by Reuters. Garbage
Andrei Martyanov on that report from his blog today:
We declined because we insist to fight ’till the last Ukrainian.
Because where Napoleon and Hitler failed, the third time is the charm.
Ukraine should take this deal or be Landlocked Soon…!
There are no such deal. Putin never offered anything similar to that. Just a wishful thinking. That’s what US strategists would like to achieve. Putin offered a deal in December 2021 and that is all. That deal was dismissed by US without consideration.
Deal or no deal Landlocking is in the horizon…!
Stupid Putin! Just a few days ago he said s
Zelensky was illegitimate because he cancelled elections and would not negotiate with him. Putin has no clue how to fight a war Russia either needs to capture all of Ukraine or leave Ukraine a small landlocked country with a Ukrainian speaking population and a Russian installed government. Otherwise Ukraine will be a problem for Russia. If the Kremlin had any sense they would understand this
You should get on the phone with him immediately and straighten him out.
However, at the same time, you should get with Biden and explain to him that the past 80+ years of US foreign policy are a catastrophe that will keep giving the world Ukraines into the indefinite future.
I would love to give them my advice. Ten years ago I said that diplomacy was useless and Russia should attack. I was ridiculed but was proven right. If the Kremlin listened to me they would have saved 14,000 lives in Donbass instead of wasting 8 years on useless diplomacy. I would also tell them to blow up all infrastructure leading into Poland and all government building in Ukraine. It’s common sense, not rocket science.
How would you know what Putin or the Russian general staff understands or what they’re thinking? I agree with you about what Russia needs to do and why. But Russia, aware of their own limitations as well as their opponent’s limitations, is taking this very slowly and carefully, while minimizing their losses and maximizing their opponent’s losses. I believe that this conflict could take years to resolve. Lots of people are impatient. Russia is on its own timetable. And time is on Russia’s side. Russia is getting stronger, while the west is falling apart.
I have no idea what they are thinking, I’m just going by their actions. Making conflicting statements like these days apart makes Russia look confused and weak and only encourages more NATO aggression. Despite Putin’s threats of a nuclear strike, NATO escalates. I have no doubt that NATO will supply Ukraine with long range missiles that can reach deep inside Russia. And why not? There’s obviously not going to be any Russian retaliation, unless you consider their endless complaining a form of retaliation. Russia didn’t even retaliate for the Crocus attack. That’s weak.
In an interview several months ago, Kremlin spokesman Peskov said Russia allows weapons to flow into Ukraine because they don’t want to harm Ukrainian infrastructure. Some of these weapons are destroyed by Russia, but the ones that aren’t are used on Russian troops and civilians.
So saving Ukrainian infrastructure is more important than saving Russian lives. It’s hard to wrap my mind around such stupidity.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/p4Nx2l5WaGcS/
They should blow up all infrastructure leading into Poland and all government buildings in Ukraine. Wait until the Rada is in session then blow it up. That way there will be no roads on which to deliver the weapons and no government to deliver them to. Putin is needlessly dragging this war out, which gives NATO more time to escalate. Russia has the troops and weapons to defeat Ukraine quickly but for some reason prefers a slow war. Perhaps Putin is a profiteer who benefits from a prolonged war.
Putin has never threatened a nuclear strike. We should look at what Putin actually says, and not to western inaccurate assumptions as to what Putin meant. As I said above, many people are impatient. We don’t know what Russia knows about their strategy and capabilities, as has been repeatedly shown by western predictions that turned out to be wildly wrong. So we should not be issuing proclamations about what Russia should have done and what it should do going forward. The Russian general staff will decide what course Russia is going to take. Let’s remember that Russia is pitted against the entire NATO alliance, and they are depending on continued good relationships with the countries of the global majority, which they don’t want to alarm.
Actually, Russia said they would be doing nuclear tests in response to Poland wanting to put nukes on their territory.
But it doesn’t matter what threats Russia makes, because they are not taken seriously by NATO, as they perceive Putin to be soft. And perception is reality. Russia has superior weapons (like hypersonic missiles that can’t be intercepted) and far more of them than NATO, since NATO sent many of them to Russia to be destroyed. Other than attacking civilian populations in Serbia and Liya, NATO is mostly impotent. There is not much they can do to Russia in a conventional war with their remaining weapons. Reliable sources like Douglas MacGregor and Scott Ritter say that Russia has tens of thousands of volunteers every month and at least 300,000 trained troops in reserve, which should be enough to finish off Ukraine. We will have to see what happens.
Saying that they are going to do nuclear tests is not the same thing as threatening a nuclear strike. It's just letting the United States know that Russia will be ready to respond to any NATO nuclear threat.
I think Russia wants to take things slowly and carefully, in order to continue minimizing their own losses. The Ukrainian military is being slowly ground into dust, and, as you say, NATO is running out of weapons to provide Ukraine. It's a dismal situation for NATO, even though they won't admit it. And it seems like Russia no longer cares how the west views them. They are going to win, and NATO is going to lose. How much they lose depends on how much they continue to resist negotiating.
Agreed, I just don't see the point of Russia dragging this out past the end of the year.
Well they should take him up on it, since if he gets this he is actually less likely to try more in W. Europe (like the fearmongers in NATO like to express). And that much less likely trying to grab even more of Ukraine. That they can’t seem to see there is no way out short of escalating into the unthinkable, it’s at least worth it for populations to try get a hold on the reins of power. Comrade Z though wants to keep his corrupt applecart afloat & the West continue to slap him on the back, “Well done, my boy!” These two “Christian” nations sure don’t act much like they are.
Putin is such a generous guy. He is giving an “out” to the west so they can save face. I hope someone listens.
“Putin currently has no desire to end his aggression against Ukraine…”
Hope to God he’s right.
Propaganda from the CIA and MI6. Only fools who eat up American propaganda believe this HS!
Russia is winning and will take Odessa and all lands East of the Dnieper River.
Russia wants no lands West of the river but Russian lands will always be Russian lands.