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They're not peace talks. They're capitulation demands given to Ukraine by the Russian Federation and its client state, the United States. It's all maskirovka, designed to fail because invader Russia makes no concessions at all. The goal is to turn public opinion against Ukraine."
Michael MacKay, a pro-Ukraine X user, wrote on the platform Russia continues to publicly claim that it wants peace while offering no concessions of its own in sharp contrast with the concessions Ukraine has already offered."
In its Russian Offensive Campaign assessment published on March 10, the ISW said Territorial concessions to what is now called Ukraine were made by the Soviet leadership during the formation of the USSR."
Lavrov also ruled out making any territorial concessions to Ukraine before the U.S. and Russia's meeting in Saudi Arabia on February 17, saying The first stages [of ending the war] could be the release of prisoners and truce in the sky—ban on missiles, long-ranged drones, bombs on energy and other civilian infrastructure—and truce in the sea immediately, if Russia will do the same."
After his explosive meeting with Trump at the White House, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky proposed in a March 4 post on X, formerly known as Twitter I think both sides need to come to an understanding that there's no military solution to this situation. The Russians can't conquer all of Ukraine, and obviously it'll be very difficult for Ukraine in any reasonable time period to sort of force the Russians back all the way to where they were in 2014.
Russian President V.V. Putin has repeatedly said, we are always ready for negotiations. But at the same time, our national interests must be guaranteed. The root causes of the conflict in Ukraine must be eradicated,
The ISW cited a magazine interview with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov released by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs' on March 10, in which Lavrov said ... echoing Putin's repeated demands The most important thing that we have to leave here with is a strong sense that Ukraine is prepared to do difficult things, like the Russians are going to have to do difficult things to end this conflict or at least pause it in some way, shape or form."
According to the U.S. Department of State's transcription of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio's remarks to the press, ... he said Trump is not just a bad president, he’s a bad human being, rotten to his very core,
Some suffocated right [in the pipeline], some turned back. About a hundred came out in our rear, split into two groups and were almost immediately ambushed by our special forces. And [also killed by] a massive squall of artillery,
Evhen Sazonov wrote on Telegram Every time I hear explosions, I think – how many more [Patriot] missiles do we have left? When is the roof of my house going to collapse?”
Mariya Minchenko, a 27-year-old ambulance paramedic, told Al Jazeera, referring to two massive bombings of Kyiv since March 3. The lid of a boiling cauldron is almost closed! Good job!”
Dmitry Medvedev, who served as president and prime minister before becoming deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, wrote on Telegram We partially try to solve this by using our data and the data from our allies, the real ones,
Romanenko quipped, referring to the United Kingdom and France – nations that are still aiding Ukraine We count on the US aid. I think the suspension of this aid would help Putin,
Zelenskyy said on March 3 during an emergency meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer Our enemy is strong, they have strong brains, they’re quick to copycat and scale up our findings,
Even with the stockpiles of weapons Ukraine has, they will have to reduce their level of operations in a couple of weeks,
They have done an excellent job marshaling their limited resources, but without U.S. intelligence and aid, it is an impossible task,
said Melinda Haring, a fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center and a senior adviser at Razom for Ukraine And without strategic and tactical intelligence, we are looking at the Ukrainians having close to two months left before Ukrainian lines begin to buckle at one of the many fronts they are fighting,
I can assure you this, we will not be providing military aid to the Russians,
We just about have.”
When asked if the halt would be lifted, Trump confirmed Currently, there is no threat of encirclement of our units in the Kursk region."
He also addressed concerns circulating in Ukrainian media that