Ukraine's Zelenskiy offers Russia more talks next week
(www.reuters.com)
from Stamau123@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 21 Jul 01:51
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from Stamau123@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 21 Jul 01:51
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KYIV, July 19 (Reuters) - Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Kyiv has sent Moscow an offer to hold another round of peace talks next week, and that he wanted to speed up negotiations for a ceasefire.
Ukraine and Russia have held two rounds of talks in Istanbul over the past five months. They have agreed to swap prisoners but made no breakthroughs in ending almost three and a half years of conflict that started with Russia’s 2022 invasion.
“Everything should be done to achieve a ceasefire,” Zelenskiy said in his evening address to the nation. “The Russian side should stop hiding from decisions,” he added.
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What does Zelenskyy expect to achieve here? If he concedes to some or all of Russia's demands, they won't back off; they'll ask for more, and there is no way he doesn't know that.
All he could possibly be asking for that is mutually beneficial is time to breathe, assess damage and regroup before fighting begins again.
Maybe he thinks Russia's resolve is breaking. Maybe it is. I sure hope so.
He probably wants to demonstrate to Trump (who said he would put economic pressure on Russia is a ceasefire was not done in less than 50 days from now.
I don’t think anybody holds out hope on a ceasefire but Zelensky must keep asking to about situations where leaders think “Well both of them are stubborn and won’t do a ceasefire.” And reduce their supplies.