Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on Tuesday that Russia couldn’t accept US proposals on ending the Ukraine war in their current form since they do not address the root causes of the conflict.
Ryabkov said Moscow hasn’t seen the US send a “clear signal” to Ukraine that it’s time to end the war.
“What we have today is an effort to find a framework that would make it possible to ensure America’s vision for a ceasefire. The idea is to then move on to some other models and frameworks, which, as far as we can see, leave no room for Russia’s core demand, that is, the need to resolve the issues stemming from the root causes of this conflict,” he said, according to Russia’s TASS news agency.
Ryabkov said Russia takes the US proposals very seriously but that they couldn’t be accepted “as they are.”
Recent negotiations between the US and Russia have focused on establishing a moratorium on the targeting of energy infrastructure in the war and a Black Sea ceasefire. While progress has been made on those fronts, there’s no sign the negotiations will lead to a full ceasefire and a lasting peace deal any time soon.
President Trump has also recently threatened to impose “secondary tariffs” on Russian oil and said he was “pissed off” at Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday that US and Russian officials will soon meet in Istanbul for further talks. He said the talks are focused on ending the war in Ukraine, restoring the Black Sea deal that allowed grain shipments to flow, and normalizing US-Russia ties by removing “irritants” in the relationship.
Mar 30, 2025 The WEST's Worst Nightmare Came TRUE: Putin Revealed SHOCKING TRUTH about His True Goal in UKRAINE
Even France disappointed Zelensky during this summit. In particular, Paris has officially declared that France will not be able to transfer frozen Russian assets to Kiev. The only thing the EU countries have given Ukraine is access to European ammunition depots and the opportunity to receive enhanced intelligence from EU satellites.
https://youtu.be/FzihjRpKLMY?si=CAMDjsRe4naMuNgh
For every action…. There is a reaction….!???? …. … …..!
Putin understands NATO is his top nemeses and enemy.
NATO is the tool of Anglo-Saxon imperialism.
Absolutely so Mikhailovich! Here is an action I can get behind.
Apr 4, 2019 NATO EXIT: Prof. Michel Chossudovsky
NATO is a criminal entity, an instrument of the Pentagon. There is no “Alliance”. There is military Occupation.
https://youtu.be/649_HXyJPAg
nyet to usa bs
As long as Anglo-Saxon goal is a strategic defeat of Russia, there are not much to negotiate about. Don't be surprised if Russia helps Houthis, North Koreans and anyone else who is resisting Anglo-Saxon imperialism.
Russia insists on its imperialist, extortionate, criminal policy.
https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/2024-05/Rome-Statute-eng.pdf Article 8 bis, crime of aggression, page 10
https://asp.icc-cpi.int/reviewconference/crime-of-aggression
https://www.coalitionfortheicc.org/explore/icc-crimes/crime-aggression
https://crimeofaggression.info/role-of-the-icc/definition-of-the-crime-of-aggression/
That is nonsensical. Russia has been very consistent on the point of the core issues having to be addressed before there is going to be a cease fire. Nevertheless the Russians have been bending over backwards to accomodate the Trump administration, who don't really know what they're doing. And now the Trump scheme predictably failed have even less of a clue. The dangerous thing is that Trump is failing on all fronts. He is bound to do something even more stupid than the last thing.
The CIA does not seem to have any problem with all of it. They sure had lots of problems with JFK who saw behind the Israel's project and did not want eternal wars. So they fixed it.
So why do you have a problem with that?
Russia's behavior against the principles of the OSCE, UN etc. lead to President Trump's demands for armament against the participants of the European Union. Those European states are now tying up higher expenditure and debt in their budgets for armaments, which are lacking for other projects.
The tax and social security contribution ratio of GDP has already reached around 40% in Germany, for example.
https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/tax-revenue–of-gdp
https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/european-union/tax-revenue–of-gdp
https://milex.sipri.org/sipri SIPRI Military Expenditure Database
https://www.sipri.org/media/press-release/2024/global-military-spending-surges-amid-war-rising-tensions-and-insecurity
https://comptroller.defense.gov/Budget-Materials/
Binber “you”
Why do “you” have a problem with that?
The Russian war of aggression is increasing energy prices, meaning that the prices of energy-intensive products are also rising. In my private household, for example, I pay around EUR 0.80 per kWh for electricity from renewable energy sources.
According to RAND, Russia's Grand Strategy, Russia should not be held to be imperialist.
As I've pointed out several times. Of course, that one study isn't necessarily decisive, but I haven't seen better argumentation, I've only seen propaganda.
Even that paper asserts that Russia’s policy with respect to Donetsk and Luhansk is imperialist.
Are you referring to what the authors write on p. 69-70? Yes, they do state that there.
It diverts from their general statements on p. 29, p.51 and p. 170-171 and specifically on Ukraine, p.58-63.
Because of that, my conclusion is not that Donetsk and Luhansk show that Russia is imperialist after all,
but that there is some other explanation for Russia's behavior towards Donetsk and Luhansk.
@VICTOR: Why do you vote down Thomas' post? It is factually correct, as far as I can see.
The topic of the paper is Russia’s “grand strategy,” but we’re commenting on an article about Russia’s specific strategy in a specific area.
My own assessment is that Russia under Putin has not been “imperialist” in a general sense. Putin seems to understand that the Russian empire is in irreversible decline and has mostly acted to try to slow that decline down with tactical imperalist preservationism in places like Chechnya, Belarus, and Ukraine (the “near abroad”) rather than to embark on a general imperialist expansionism strategy.
I often wish that the US regimes were as realistic about the US empire as Putin has generally been about the Russian empire. American emperors just can’t seem to let go of the “unipolar hegemony” they’ve been trying and failing to achieve since World War 2.
Amen.
Should it perhaps be that the folk at RAND are I don't know maybe somewhat predisposed lets say.. to eh imperialist projection in their political philosophizing?
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR4238.html#document-details "Russian Grand Strategy Rhetoric and Reality", page 51-52: Table 5.1
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"We characterize the lowest level of hierarchy as “laissez-faire” and the highest “imperialist.” Looking at Russia’s declared strategy, we would expect its actions and behaviors in the region to pursue the approach we characterize here as “interventionist.”
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Many Western analysts claim that Russia’s strategy in the region is, in fact, imperialist.11 A state with imperialist objectives would aim for a high level of control over decisionmaking in a target country. In the case of Russia, imperialism would entail an attempt to recreate a degree of dominance resembling, for example, the level of control that the Soviet Union exercised over its Eastern European satellites."
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Furthermore, we do not see evidence of Russia’s pursuing the imperialist model from Table 5.1. (page 63)"
Yes, that may well be. That makes it all the more remarkable – for me at least – what they write.
Doesn't the enormous loess layer, soil fertility, mineral deposits, etc. in Ukraine encourage imperialist adventures? President Trump is demanding a mineral agreement from Ukraine, for example.
https://journals.openedition.org/quaternaire/14308?lang=en#tocto2n2 The loess-palaeosol sequence of novyi tik: a new middle and upper pleistocene record for volyn’ upland (North-West Ukraine)
https://www.cirsd.org/en/horizons/horizons-winter-2025-issue-no-29/the-mineral-wars
https://ukraineinvest.gov.ua/en/industries/mining/
My advice to President Putin is to stay on course, Hold steady.
The current US government treats US citizens as problematic trash unless they are wealthy. A small percentage of US workers support Trump because he ran as a peace candidate and they don't remember he is a New York city dude that cheats workers.
The blob in the white house says the bombing of a water plant in Yemen was incredibly successful, It is actually the liars in government who are incredible;
incredible | inˈkredəb(ə)l |
adjective
1 impossible to believe: an almost incredible tale of triumph and tragedy.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/whiplash-effect-as-pissed-off-trump
Trump preferred hiring Zionists and Neocons on his national security team.
He's witnessing the results that he envisioned: all war and economic collapse. The morality is up to the beholder.
Calling your enemy's constant ongoing attempts to kill you as "irritants" is a good example of excellent political skills. Since I have none, I would be way beyond "irritated." That's why you all should be grateful that I'm not Putin.
Don´t think I would be a good Putin either. binber writes that we show neurotic, aggressive dispositions.
Dude! LOL
Why nobody never and ever mentions that huge accomplishment the US/UK was able to achieve? …Which one? …Okay, don't be mad, I will tell you. It's tapping into the Europeans' deeply racist souls by convincing them that Ukraine is European and Russia is not.
"Sarah Ashton Cirillo, then spokesperson for the forces of Ukrainian territorial defences, in September 2023:
“Russians are not Europeans… Russians are Asian, and ultimately, they do come from the Mongols. They do come from a grouping of people who want to be slaves and want to be led, just as it was from the days of Genghis Khan. I wish the rest of Europe and the Western world understood that Europe ends at Ukraine. We are protecting European values and Western values the same way those did hundreds and thousands of years ago when the Mongols came in… Every Russian that supports Vladimir Putin’s decisions are not human. These people are not human. They are enemies of humanity, in fact… we’ve been asking the Western world… to make certain they understood the threat of these non-humans.”"
cited from
Sorry, I hope I didn’t throw up on you. That reminded me of an abscess I once had.
Russians and Ukrainians both came from a mix of Nordic, Slavic, and Finnic peoples. Then the Mongols came, and then the Turks (very similar.) But they ruled in Kieven Rus' a lot longer than in Moskva. All people are human.
Some people are just more human than others.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0888754318307419 "Genome-wide sequence analyses of ethnic populations across Russia:
The Russian Federation (Russia) has one of the most ethnically diverse indigenous human populations within a single country. …
The ancestors of ethnic Russians were among the Slavic tribes that separated from the early Indo-European Group, which included ancestors of modern Slavic, Germanic and Baltic speakers, who appeared in the northeastern part of Europe ca. 1500 years ago. Slavs were found in the central part of Eastern Europe, where they came in direct contact with (and likely assimilation of) the populations speaking Uralic (Volga-Finnish and Baltic-Finnish), and also Baltic languages [[11], [12], [13]]. In the following centuries, Slavs interacted with the Iranian-Persian, Turkic and Scandinavian peoples, all of which in succession may have contributed to the current pattern of genome diversity across the different parts of Russia."
The Turks? Tell me more.
The Ottoman Empire had no interest in conquering land north of the Black Sea, except as a defensive safety zone to protect it from Cossack raids by boat. (As you likely know, Cossacks even raided Constantinople).
In the second half of the 17th century Dnjepr Cossacks requested the Ottoman Empire that their Hetmanate become a vassal of the Ottoman Empire, for protection against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Tsardom of Russia. The Ottoman Empire did that, annexed the Podolia region, and conquered Kiev and Braclav, which they then left to the Cossacks.
But in the ensuing Great Turkish War in the next decades the Ottomans were driven back and that ended Ottoman expansion in eastern Europe.
Question: how would you reckon turkish ethnic and cultural influence in the region north of the Black Sea?
The quote source (New Cold War: Know Better is a project of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group (GERG)) abbreviates, tears apart the quote in a propagandistically dubious manner. Please compare:
https://www.dw.com/en/ukraines-transgender-spokeswoman-dismisses-russian-haters/a-66898006
A racist, off-topic, malevolently trivial debate does not promote peace talks, but shows neurotic, aggressive dispositions of both commenters NA, Soul.
No. Nazism includes racism. Examples of racism in Ukraine are empirical facts that support a hypothesis of nazism. Calling Russians 'asian hordes' is what nazis did 80 years ago too.
I consider the propaganda of a fascistic regime, a fascistic state in Ukraine, as practiced by Russia, to be politically and strategically wrong, abstruse. However, neo-fascistic, right-wing populistic organizations do exist in Ukraine, as in almost all European countries with major electoral successes, e.g., in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Finland, etc. Russia maintains close relations with those populistic organizations in Europe.
https://www.populismstudies.org/
https://unherd.com/newsroom/the-new-populist-map-of-europe/
https://www.liberties.eu/en/stories/populism/44261
– Ukrainian nazi snipers shot at people at the violent coup in Kiev in february 2014.
– Ukranian Nazis burned 48 people alive in Odessa on 2 may 2014.
– As soon as Minks 2 was signed, ukrainian Nazis declared they would ignore it and keep on fighting; and they had the power to do so; the state did not have a monopoly on violence.
– From then on, they committed violence against the population of East- and South Ukraine, killing many people.
– When Zelensky was elected on a peace platform in 2019, ukrainian Nazis openly threatened to kill him. Nazi-leader D. Yarosh was in a newspaper with his photo.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/46951dee082bd213f23bbebaadfc3987be6a0495913b62b89cd88dc4b546892e.jpg
– Ukrainian Nazis have a long history that includes death squads in South America.
– Ukraine had become a centre of international nazidom .
Nazis in the countries you mention have not done such things. Fortunately they do not have the power to do them.
An attempt to gloss over ukrainian Nazis by relativizing them by mentioning Nazis in other countries fails.
Such fascistic organizations need the vigilance, observation of civil society and the anti-fascistic propaganda and resistance that I as an anti-fascist cultivate. However, I reject the Russian, disinformational propaganda that denigrates the Ukrainian government and the entire Ukrainian civil society with its parties as fascists. I criticize the Ukrainian government's integration and toleration of the Azov Brigade into the regular army as a scandal, because anti-fascistic resistance is already directed against the beginnings of fascism. I also criticize the U.S. government for lifting a ban on the Azov Brigade.
https://azov.org.ua/en/about-azov/
https://azov-international.com/
https://azov.one/en
https://supportazov.com/en/about
https://ab3.army/en/about-the-brigade/
https://militaryland.net/ukraine/national-guard/azov-brigade/
https://ildu.com.ua/ Legionnaires serve in many different units of the Defence Forces of Ukraine
https://svidomi.in.ua/en/page/myths-of-neo-nazism-and-bandera-how-azov-became-the-target-of-russian-propaganda
https://svidomi.in.ua/page/azov-brigade-is-nine-years-old-how-russian-propaganda-discredited-the-unit-and-what-consequences-it-had-during-the-defence-of-mariupol
https://cepa.org/article/ukraines-azov-brigade-stops-the-rot-in-the-east/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-lifts-ban-on-providing-weapons-and-training-for-ukraines-controversial-azov-brigade
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Brigade
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1/who-are-the-azov-regiment
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/azov-far-right-fighters-ukraine-neo-nazis
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/10/ukraine-combat-unit-azov-recruit-english-speaking-soldiers
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/03/28/azov-brigade-captures-20-russian-soldiers-in-donetsk-oblasts-toretsk-sector/
https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2025/03/26/long-sentences-handed-to-members-of-ukraines-azov-brigade-for-defence-of-mariupol-en-news
I note and appreciate your first statement.
As for your second statement, I agree with the second part of it. It is wrong and also unfair to most Ukrainians to denigrate them as fascist.
Two notes here are:
1) After Maidan, ukrainian politics and its support in society was greatly out of balance to the nationalist side. On that, see
Volodymyr Ishchenko – The Minsk Accords and the political weakness of the “Other Ukraine”
Brill, Russian politics 21 june 2023
https://brill.com/view/journals/rupo/8/2/article-p127_2.xml
The link does not give access to the article. I have the .pdf.
2) Nationalist propaganda in Ukraine is strong. For example, it is enshrined in law. E. g. article 6 Law nr. 2538-1 About the legal status and commemoration of the fighters for the independence of Ukraine in the 20th century makes it a criminal offense to offend persons such as S. Bandera, Y. Stetsko, R. Shukhevych and to object to their statues, street names, the nationalist mythology and ideology being taught at school &c.
As for the first part of your second statement, indeed, president Putin himself in his speeches of 21 and 24 feb. 2022 denounced the ukrainian govt and society as nazi in terms that go too far and are unwarranted generalizations. He sets the tone, and here he could have done better.
"Ukraine is European and Russia is not" – definitely Ukraine is nearer to Europe than Russia. Such European phenomenon as Hitler was accepted in Ukraine much better than in Russia.
"Europeans' deeply racist souls" – Ukrainian neo-Nazism is admired in many European countries. Why do you think Germans are so enthusiastic in their support of current Kiev regime? And not only Germans.
Yes, Russia is not European country. Russians are too different.
Russians are not racially that different. They are different culturally. It could be my fault for not explaining it fully, but you missed my point completely. My point is that the Neocons are exploiting that inner racial superiority characteristic in Europeans.
I don't think I missed your point. Yes, neocons are exploiting it, but it exists. Otherwise how they could exploit it?
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/russia-halts-large-chunk-kazakhstans-oil-export-capacity
Trump is "pissed" that Putin did not give in to his demands right away. Trump still wants to brag about his "peace president" title while killing others pumps him up.
Giving in to Trump is dangerous to the world.
It's all a shitshow as far as Russia is concerned…!
There’s a commenter, the name I believe is psychhistorian, or something like that, and a common theme they repeat is “ the shitshow continues until it doesn’t”.
Ain’t it the truth.
lol…!
Well hey everybody just loves a forever war, huh?
Joe Haldeman's sci-fi novel was fantastic. Top 5, easily.
I need to arrange to meet Haldeman some time. He lives in the same town as me.
OMG GET ON THAT.
I've already seen MSM portraying Russian Federation hesitation, pushback, counter-offers as "Russia Says No To Any Ceasefire" kind of clickbait.
The Trump proposal was a ceasefire to halt advancing Russian forces who are destroying the Ukrainian army. This will allow the easy transport of more American supplies and equipment to frontline Ukrainian units and allow them time to recover and dig in.
II just hope u.s. negotiates are skillful.