Russia - Ukraine “peace negotiations”

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nycfan said:


Grim stuff
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“… As first responders rushed to the scene, a coordinated messaging campaign got underway across Russian media, including the state-controlled Izvestia newspaper. The blast, it was suggested, was the revenge of a distraught mother, driven to murderous insanity by the grief of losing her only son to the war after he was forcibly mobilized by the Ukrainian authorities. The soldiers who were killed, the messaging campaign added, were military recruiters.

As is the case with most Russian influence operations, nothing stated was true.

The killed soldiers didn’t work for any recruitment office; they were all members of Ukraine’s demining corps. The bomber, a 42-year-old mother from the city of Horishni Plavni in Poltava oblast, had left her very-much-alive infant child in a nearby hostel when she left on what became a “suicide bombing” mission. Recruited on the social media platform Telegram, which, despite its Russian ownership, is still ubiquitous in Ukraine, she was not aware of her lethal cargo. Her Russian intelligence contact told her merely that she was to deliver a large amount of money to a certain location.

The bomb had been prepared by a group of teenagers, aged between 14 and 17, also from Poltava oblast. They’d built the device under instruction from their Russian handlers and handed it off to its unwitting transporter. Russian intelligence tracked the woman’s arrival at the target site and detonated the package remotely. (The Ukrainian government has not released the names of any of the bombers or victims mentioned in this article.)

Nearly a month later, one early evening in March, two teenagers, one 15 and the other 17, were walking near the railway station in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk, in a part of western Ukraine largely spared from the daily carnage of war, when the improvised explosives they were carrying detonated. The older of the two was killed instantly; his younger friend was hospitalized with severe injuries.

The device they had been carrying, which they’d assembled under the supervision of their Russian handlers, had been constructed with GPS tracking and remote detonation, as was the case with the bomb in Mykolaiv. As the two teenagers walked close to their target, their Russian handlers, who had initially recruited the pair with the prospect of earning “easy money” for simply making and planting the bomb, according to the Ukrainian security services, called in the detonation. The teenagers hadn’t realized they were going to be part of the butcher’s bill. …”
 
He keeps proposing the same thing but this time he really means it.

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p5mmr9 said:
I have so much admiration for Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He is a leader from another era.
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I may be getting forgetful, but seems like the original idea for a ceasefire to come ahead of a negotiated settlement came from Trump and Zelenskyy has simply adopted it. And of all things, having the ceasefire come first seems to be putting Putin in a bind and of course that's hitting Trump. So I welcome that.
 
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