After President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, the Kremlin on Friday was “cautiously hopeful” about the possibility of peace in Ukraine.
Following the meeting of the Trump administration of Putin, the comments of Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov echo the Russian president’s people who said Thursday that they ideally accepted the ceasefire of the United States and Ukraine – but only on Ukraine’s victory over Ukraine.
It was a loud “yes, but”.
Putin said in a speech, “We agree with the proposals to stop the enemies. But only when it” leads to long -term peace and eliminates the root causes of the crisis. “
This term-“cause of root”-has long been a reference to Russian grievances that he sees as an extension of NATO’s east. Western officials and analysts dismissed it, saying that Putin wanted to subdue Ukraine, and pull it into the realm of Russia’s influence and are far from its European inclination.
Trump himself called Putin’s comment “a promising statement”, but many officials and experts in Ukraine and Europe have been rarely affected. But, despite the Trump administration, there is little evidence that Putin has changed his basic combat goals: stabilizing his land grip in Ukraine and preventing him from joining NATO.
During his address on Thursday night, Ukrainian President Wolodmeer Zelannsky described Putin’s words as “manipulation”. “Putin often does this – they do not say ‘no’ directly, but they do in such a way that in practice, everything delays it and makes normal decisions impossible.”
“Putin, of course, is afraid to tell President Trump directly to tell President Trump that he wants to continue the war, that he wants to kill Ukraine.”
Ukrainian Armed Forces said hours after Putin spoke, his soldier fired 27 drone firing in Ukraine overnight by Friday.
According to the Ukrainian army, some were shot, but one collided with a civilian hospital in the western village of Zoluchio, causing the building to fire and injured a member of the crew.
In the southern city of Kharson, NBC News found a scene of devastation following the latest Russian bombing, which is mostly located overnight.
Rescue workers in the residential area were cleaning the debris and setting up power lines where a Russian glide bomb attack was already separated in which several houses were separated.
69 -year -old Mukla Verojuski said he was inside his house when he was destroyed.
“Putin is a liar,” Verojsky told NBC News that when he was standing with the debris of his house, he was decreasing the tears. “They call black white and white black. He said he was liberating Ukraine. He freed me from my house, job and car.
Some Western experts believe that the Russian leader is in a harsh place, and his unpleasant reaction is an attempt to balance two competitive facts.
First of all, the Kremlin has no reason to accept any war unless it gives it a favorable result. Second, he wants to get a settlement with the White House, while his head is capable of Moscow, said Jonathan Ail, director of the Royal United Services Institute Think Tank in London.
“Friday said on Friday,” Putin’s interest is no longer a ceasefire.
Ail said the agreement on offering Putin is not improving, adding that the Russian president has had an amazing opportunity to return globally and [escape] With the help of the United States, “he added,” he added. So “he will have to try to seize the deal without giving too much privileges to Ukraine, and this is his dilemma.”
Kiev’s official Putin’s “ridiculous” reaction “would hope to use to help your US colleagues to help that the Kremlin dictator is not really interested in the end of the war,” Micola Belaskov wroteA research tank in Ukraine, a research fellow at the National Institute for Strategic Studies.
Although Putin may entertain reconciliation with Moscow -approved terms, they will not accept an independent state of Ukraine on the Russian border, Belaskov wrote for the Atlantic Council.
“This does not mean that the current US -led peace efforts are completely useless, but it is important to acknowledge that freezing the conflict with the current front lines will not be enough to end the war.”
