While carefully avoiding an outright rejection of US ceasefire proposals, Moscow is playing for time

Summary

Vladimir Putin responded to Ukraine’s US-backed ceasefire proposal by imposing strict conditions, including a halt to Kyiv’s military aid and mobilization, while continuing Russia’s own rearmament.

His calculated stance prolongs negotiations without outright rejecting Donald Trump’s initiative, which seeks to end the war while pressuring Ukraine.

Putin also demands Ukraine’s demilitarization, exclusion from NATO, and recognition of Russian territorial claims.

Trump, with limited leverage, may shift toward aligning with Putin’s terms. Meanwhile, Ukraine fears the ceasefire could allow Russia to regroup and intensify its offensive.

  • Docus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    9 months ago

    Trump does not have the cards to force a peace deal, or the skills to negotiate one. Ukraine and Putin are simply too far apart to meet in the middle.

      • NoiseColor @lemmy.worldEnglish
        43·
        9 months ago

        Thats completely naive. Reality doesn’t work like memes. People are dying, lives are being destroyed.

    • MrNesser@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      I’m convinced Trump is chasing the nobel peace prize because Obama has one and he’s still butt hurt over it.

    • NoiseColor @lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      9 months ago

      Definitely not skills. But both sides in the war want to have a strong start to the negotiation. Ukraine might give up Crimea officially for NATO membership. Russia will do anything that will look like they won.

        • NoiseColor @lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          9 months ago

          Its the start of the negotiation, everyone will take positions, but might change them. I don’t think Nato is really an option, but they might avoid this and make individual 2 party agreements between Ukraine and Nato countries that would serve as a sort of replacement for actually admitting Ukraine to Nato.

            • NoiseColor @lemmy.worldEnglish
              21·
              9 months ago

              Without giving Ukrainians real safety guarantees, they will never stop fighting. Russia knows that. If they don’t accept safety guarantees they are saying, they want to war more.

              • alkbch@lemmy.mlEnglish
                12·
                9 months ago

                They will never stop fighting? Ukraine can’t win a war of attrition against Russia.

                  • alkbch@lemmy.mlEnglish
                    12·
                    9 months ago

                    Even with the West’s support Ukraine has been losing ground. Imagine without the US support…

    • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      9 months ago

      It is not about Trumps skills. My guess is that there might have been a deal, if Trump didn’t get in the way of his advisors by posting on social media and going off script in interviews