Russia - Ukraine “peace negotiations”

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Putin to conscript 160,000 more Russians for war with Ukraine​

Ukraine warned the Kremlin is preparing for a massive new military offensive.

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Putin to conscript 160,000 more Russians for war with Ukraine

Ukraine warned the Kremlin is preparing for a massive new military offensive.
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“According to our intelligence, Russia is preparing for new offensives in Sumy, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia regions,” Zelenskyy said last week.

“They are dragging out negotiations and trying to drag the U.S. into endless, meaningless discussions about fake conditions to buy time and then try to seize even more land. Putin wants to negotiate territory from a stronger position. He only thinks about war. So, our job — all of us — is defense in the broadest sense of the word,” he added.

Yet U.S. President Donald Trump, who on Sunday said he was “pissed off” by Putin’s desire to remove Zelenskyy from power for a peace treaty to become possible, still believes the Kremlin’s leader will stick to his word and that he wants the war to end. …”
 
Another 160,000 for the meat grinder. With the weather getting better soon, then makes sense that Russia will try.

Russia doesn't really train their troops. Just give them a gun and send them out. But Ukraine has even added an additional six weeks of training before their guys go into combat and there is now even an adaptive period to try to ease them into it according to recent General Syrskyi's comments.
 

Trump accuses Ukraine’s Zelensky of ‘trying to back out’ of proposed minerals deal​




“US President Donald Trump accused the Ukrainian president of “trying to back out” of the minerals deal expected to be agreed between the two countries as early as this week, adding that Volodymyr Zelensky would face “big problems” if he didn’t sign an agreement. But Ukraine has highlighted that the conditions of the deal changed significantly in recent days.

“I see he’s trying to back out of the rare earth deal. And if he does that, he’s got some problems. Big, big problems,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force Once on Sunday. “We made a deal on rare earth and now he’s saying, ‘well, you know, I want to renegotiate the deal.’”

“He wants to be a member of NATO. Well, he was never going to be a member of NATO. He understands that. So if he’s looking to renegotiate the deal, he’s got big problems,” Trump said.

Meanwhile, Zelensky said last week that the conditions of the deal being negotiated are “constantly changing,” but overall, Ukraine feels positively toward a future agreement. …”
 

Hegseth expected to skip key meeting with allies on Ukraine support​


"US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is not expected to attend next week’s meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Brussels, marking the first time since the group’s founding three years ago that a senior Pentagon official will not be there to represent the US, officials familiar with the matter told CNN.

The US has for months been steadily pulling back from the group, which was founded by former Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in 2022 after Russia’s invasion as a way for dozens of countries to streamline the delivery of military equipment to Ukraine to quell Russian military advances.

Whereas Austin or a senior Pentagon official always chaired the group’s monthly meetings, Hegseth has ceded that role to the UK in recent months—even as a senior US general told lawmakers on Thursday that “continuing to assist Ukraine on the battlefield daily” is “very important” when it comes to maintaining leverage over the Russians.

Hegseth attended a meeting of the UDCG in February at NATO headquarters in Brussels, where he told allies that the US would no longer be a guarantor of European security and that it was highly “unlikely” that Ukraine would ever join NATO—a comment that, at the time, marked a dramatic shift from the longtime US position that Ukraine would one day join the alliance. ..."
 
There are times that I have to wonder just how smart Putin really is. He was dumb enough to leave 300 billion in Western banks. And you would think he'd be rushing to take advantage of having an American President who would certainly give him a great peace deal.

All I can figure is that he thinks he can have peace whenever he wants it, so why stop the war a minute before he has too.
 
BlueSmoke said:
There are times that I have to wonder just how smart Putin really is. He was dumb enough to leave 300 billion in Western banks. And you would think he'd be rushing to take advantage of having an American President who would certainly give him a great peace deal.

All I can figure is that he thinks he can have peace whenever he wants it, so why stop the war a minute before he has too.
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Trump already gave him what he wants - American abandonment of Ukraine.
 


"... Trump has said he is frustrated with Russia for stalling over a cease-fire that Ukraine already agreed to, but gave no indication that he was preparing to pressure the Kremlin, for instance by increasing sanctions. The Trump administration has also appeared to favor Russia by sparing it from a recent round of trade tariffs and echoing some of the Kremlin’s views.

“We’re talking to Russia. I’d like them to stop. I don’t like the bombing. The bombing goes on and on and…Every week thousands of young people are being killed,” Trump told reporters Sunday, before repeating his claim that the war wouldn’t have started if he had been president.

The Kremlin, for its part, said Monday that President Vladimir Putin supported the idea of a cease-fire, but that a series of issues needed addressing.

“These questions are hanging in the air, and no one has given an answer to them yet,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, state news agencies reported.

Peskov listed some of them, including limiting the strength of Ukraine’s military. Moscow has demanded sweeping concessions from Ukraine, including ceding territory and giving up efforts to integrate with the West.

Zelensky expressed dismay at the muted U.S. response to the Friday strike on the city of Kryviy Rih, his hometown. ..."
 
BlueSmoke said:
There are times that I have to wonder just how smart Putin really is. He was dumb enough to leave 300 billion in Western banks. And you would think he'd be rushing to take advantage of having an American President who would certainly give him a great peace deal.

All I can figure is that he thinks he can have peace whenever he wants it, so why stop the war a minute before he has too.
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There's also the considerable factor of Putin's personality. He likes to crush and humiliate his opponents just like Trump (in fact, Trump has probably been emulating him, perhaps on VVP's suggestion, for years). I'm sure Putin gets more enjoyment out of owning the US president than anything else in his entire life. So why not milk it?
 
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