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Can't stop
Putin is offered to end the war, but the Russian president talks about the successes of the army and is not ready to stop
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he “cursorily” read the open letter from Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and added that he “sees no point” in meeting with him. He stated this during the plenary session at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).
The war cannot be perceived as Putin’s triumph
At a meeting with the heads of the world's leading news agencies, Vladimir Putin said that Russia is ready for peace negotiations, but on certain conditions agreed upon last year at a meeting with Donald Trump in Anchorage (their exact contents are unknown). One of Moscow’s demands is the withdrawal of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the entire territory of Donbass
Putin also told reporters that the Russian army is advancing daily in all directions: “Lately, I won’t name the number of settlements now, because I’m afraid to make a mistake, but the Russian army has brought approximately two thousand four hundred and forty thousand square kilometers under its control.” In reality, the Russian army has been conceding previously occupied areas for the second month in a row, notes The Moscow Times.
He doesn't understand the new reality of war
Most likely, Putin does not know the real state of affairs at the front, which is why he so boldly flaunts numbers. A source for the British newspaper The Guardian reported in May that the Russian ruler was receiving distorted information about what was happening in the war.
Meanwhile, on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Andrei Bezrukov, an adviser to Putin’s powerful confidant Igor Sechin, said that, in his opinion, two generations will fight in Russia, and the war could drag on for decades.
Vladimir Zelensky apparently thinks differently: he published an open letter to Putin with a proposal to meet personally and agree to end the war. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin was “informed” about the letter. There is no more detailed response yet.
We talk about Vladimir Putin’s relationship with reality and where a long war could lead Russia with the writer and political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky .
About Zelensky's open letter to Putin:
“The letter is, in general, an image campaign, which is intended to describe a certain understanding of what is happening today in the Russian-Ukrainian war, which is really very seriously bogged down and cannot be perceived as Putin’s triumph in any way, no matter what the Russian leader says about this.”
About the fact that Zelensky’s letter, or rather its contents, did not reach the addressee:
“All of Putin’s remarks do not show that he does not understand the new technological reality of war. Otherwise, he would not constantly appeal to the argument about the shortage of Ukraine’s mobilization resource. In a situation of total drone war, the “kill zone” created by drones does not imply that additional manpower can turn the tide of events.”
Putin is offered to end the war, but the Russian president talks about the successes of the army and is not ready to stop
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About how Putin, in times of war, passes off the country’s isolation as sovereignty:
“Putin is a “bunkerizer,” not a consolidator. He is not the creator of any common spaces and projects. If you analyze not his rhetoric, but his real activities over a quarter of a century, he did everything possible to isolate Russia from the world, if not with an iron curtain, but with a brass curtain, and in this he succeeded.”
We are returning to the worst analogue of Soviet times
""Sovereignty" must be understood as full-fledged and full-fledged totalitarianism and isolation of the country. Putin is fixing the already existing state of affairs - this is a totalitarian state in which there can be no respect for individual rights and property in principle. We are returning to the worst analogue of Soviet times."
About SPIEF 2025 and its participants:
“[The forum] has completely degraded and turned into some kind of gathering of third-rate, dubious and downright scandalous characters. Putin has always positioned the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum as a serious platform demonstrating the interest of elites and investors from other countries. Today we do not see any elites.”