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Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher
Ukrainian military personnel now on the front line, fearing an eternal conflict, are in favour of talks with Russia, the Financial Times reported. The article predicts that Ukraine is approaching the “darkest hour” of the conflict, admitting that the Ukrainian army is losing on the battlefield to Russia, which is advancing relentlessly.
“Right now, I’m thinking more about how to save my people,” said Mykhailo Temper. “It’s quite hard to imagine we will be able to move the enemy back to the borders of 1991,” the Ukrainian battalion commander added.
Another commander also told the newspaper that he is now in favour of negotiations with Russia, adding that he fears that “his grandson might one day inherit an endless conflict.”
An officer of the 72nd Mechanised Brigade operating in Kurakhove said: “If the US turns off the spigot, we’re finished.”
Furthermore, it is confirmed that “the arbitrary military mobilisation system” increases social tensions in the country. The article quoted Oleksandr Merezhko, chairman of the Ukrainian parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, admitting that “society is exhausted.”
The Financial Times also noted a change in Ukrainian officials’ approach to resolving the conflict and cited European diplomats who attended the UN General Assembly and said that Ukraine’s new Foreign Minister, Andrii Sybiha, discussed possible compromise options for resolving the conflict with Western counterparts during his recent trip to the US.
They stressed that Sibiga was more pragmatic about the possibility of territorial concessions than his predecessor, Dmitry Kuleba.
“We’re talking more and more openly about how this ends and what Ukraine would have to give up in order to get a permanent peace deal. And that’s a major change from even six months ago, when this kind of talk was taboo,” one of the diplomats said, adding that six months ago, such conversations were taboo in Kiev.
Nonetheless, according to Zelensky, October would be “decision time” since he will once again prepare to seek permission to hit targets inside Russia with Western weapons.
“It’s about constraining Russia’s capabilities” to pressure Moscow to open talks, a senior Ukrainian official told the newspaper. “It’s a real chance if we are thinking about solving this war.”
This is disingenuous from the Kiev regime, though, since it is they who have outlawed peace negotiations with the Kremlin.
It is recalled that Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Moscow would immediately agree to a ceasefire and declare readiness for negotiations after the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the new Russian regions. Furthermore, he added, Kiev must declare its renunciation of intentions to join NATO, adopt a neutral, non-aligned, and nuclear-free status, and lift sanctions against Russia. However, despite these generous terms, the Kiev regime, headed by President Volodymyr Zelensky, has not seriously shown intention of beginning peace discussions with the Kremlin.
The Financial Times highlighted that the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology in a summer poll found that 57% of respondents believed Ukraine should engage in peace negotiations with Russia, up from 33% a year earlier.
“The survey showed the war was taking an ever heavier toll: 77% of respondents reported the loss of family members, friends or acquaintances, four times as many as two years earlier. Two-thirds said they were finding it difficult or very difficult to live on their wartime income,” the outlet reported.
According to a KIIS poll conducted in May, 55% of Ukrainians oppose the cession of territory to Russia as part of a peace deal. Nonetheless, even though 55% still constitutes a majority, it is a dramatic drop from 87% early last year.
“People want peace but they are also against territorial concessions. It is hard to reconcile them,” said Merezhko.
Ukraine cannot expel Russia from any territory captured, especially now that the Ukrainian army is slowly retreating from Donbass. Realistically, the best Ukraine can get is what is proposed by US Republican Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance, who pushes for establishing a lasting ceasefire along the current lines. If not, Kiev could end up with much less. However, this is only possible at Moscow’s indiscretion, not Vance’s.
Even if Moscow would be open to Vance’s suggestions, the Kiev regime is yet to give any serious indication that it is prepared to engage in negotiations with Russia and still insists on delusional terms in their ten-point peace plan, which, among others, calls for the return of all territory and the arrest of many Russian officials.
These are terms that the Kremlin will obviously reject, especially since the Russian military is in control of the battlefield. Meanwhile, while the Kiev regime insists on imposing delusional terms that it does not have the power to enforce, Ukrainian soldiers like Temper will continue to die.
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ukrainians are against territorial concessions? … 1) never use peace agreements as some kind of cynical strategic ploy. 2) never let your country be eaten alive by outside foreign interests that only seek to exploit you. and most importantly, 3) don’t be stupid enough to think that the americans actually have your best interests in mind
and never drink the maidan tea🤡
and never eat nuland’s cookies.
or anything else of hers for that matter.
or nible on maidan cookies, especially if handed out by the ‘cookie monsters’.
it’s not their country. they knew it since 1991. they tried to gain power to steal everything and left the territory to live at west with stolen wealth. judeo-banderites understand this even better, they are trying to do more damage before malorossia will back home. yanukovich was a vampire too, he tried to drink blood slower, because fast drinking can kill the donor. but it’s doomed anyway, because ukrainization kills.
even the un, back in 2014 admitted that ukraine has no borders. they never ratified their borders with russia or belarus, in accordance with international law. which makes me laugh when western politicians and zelinsky go on about returning to the borders of 1991.
yeah, it also makes me smile, because borders of 1991 = borders of ussr. biden said that he will return russia to the borders of 19 century. but in 19 century warsaw was 3rd city of russia by population. finland and alaska were russian too.
you should take queen mum’s advice “never trust anybody”.
dominoes are beginning to fall. even nato secretary-general marky rutty has admitted ukraine will have to give up land for peace. why did us/uk/nato not do this in the first place & avoid the wholesale slaughter of ukrainian men. i guess they dont give a flying frack about eastern european ukrainian cannon fodder & had to try and see if they could strategically defeat russia without spending that precious western european blue blood
its not about prescious blood. its the fact that defeating russia is just the first part of their plan cause after that china is on the menue and thats for what they need their main eu/ nato/ aukus/ quad battlegroups. in order to have a chance against china they need to defeat russia and iran without taking any significant own losses and potentially incoporate whats a us quisling lead russian and iranian army into the attacking forces.
for wef. the roman forum. hello. catholic translated into english is universal universal income universal healthcare universal education etcetera.
but blood has been sacrifized for odessa and kharkiv already, without these cities within rf there can be no lasting peace also because otherwise russian speakers will always 2nd class citizens🫶✌️🕊
like your 2 votes thaf despite me down voting them to 1 stay at 2. the usual here
it all started when nato set its sights on crimea
it all ended when nato went blind.
ditto with the votes. and it started with megalomaniacs wanting to rule the universe.
it started long before then. how many centuries have the same nations been fighting to get their hands on crimea? dickens was providing steam laundries to florence nightingale, back in the 19th century, when the city of london was trying to get control of crimea.
that’s because the easiest way to steal russias richest territory being ukraine crimea was to split them up first divide from within to conquer from without their usual send in the trojans and turn ukraine against motherland. just as they do within nuclear families break their bonds easier to catch the lone prey.
lol… have to give up land? have to give up on the plan to try and murder and steal land from their latest victims… amazing how zionazi nato behaviour in their proxy ukraine mirrors very closely the ethnocleansing colonialism of the zionist israeli death machine… imagine that, they finally hit an obvious wall, at hypersonic speed…
they are importing millions of foreigners from africa…. so they don’t care about our blood. they want mixed race people, globalized people in a globalized world.
they believed the idiots in the think tanks, who have never had proper jobs, just highly schooled, whilst lacking intelligence. they thought russia would run away, when they saw the nato forces, disguised as ukrainian forces. that is the problem with social science and polemic arguments. they only look at one side of the argument, with a fascist mentality. our way or no way.
just go to hell z!
too late, pigmen, too late for talks. be prepared for the ground as klichko mistaken and said “for ground” instead “for winter”, because it sounds similar in russian — к зиме/к земле. now it’s popular joke to taunt hohols — ready for the ground. fertilizer for soil.
maybe if russia included mental health treatment for the ukrainian leader a peace deal could be made before all of ukraine is lost.
zely has a great career in front of him in one of those canadian county fairs, where the mps like to wave right sektor flags. he can sit suspended above a tank of hot tar and feathers while disappointed nazis throw baseballs at a target hoping to dump him.
or they could just shoot him before he leaves ukraine and before they get shot themselves.
your flippancy over human life is indicative of your mental health your social conscience morality and religion
you don’t like the western rootin’ tootin’ reality show?
the ukrainian “leader” is in langley.
there’s no kings in langley.
yermak and mcfaul have joined forces to plot ukraine’s demise.
again votes don’t change the score only if they’re agreeable to allow them too. that’s their protection and defence of freedom of speech apparently. actions speak louder than words
nothing to talk about until natostan and the evil eussr are ash piles and the $lumvillains kick off their well deserved and much overdue civil war reloaded. fixed it!
putin and russia are dumb for letting this happen. maiden could have been extinguished long ago. he waited 10 years. amateur night. people on here praise russia and putin…for what …killing 50k of their own and 700k ukranians for some cia dog wank 2014 street party. putin is dumb.
you are. naive. stupid ignorant uneducated and unrealistic about how the world is controlled.
back in 2014, donetsk voted to be independent autonomous territories. in 2022, they voted to return home to russia, which changed things. allowing russia to legally assist in defending them. don’t let facts get in the way, when the west is trying to assert discontent and political discourse, between the people of russia and their president.
hehehe, dont trust or believe it. this is a plan being schemed and implemented by zelensky. it is a trap. they talk peace then attack.
nobody believes zelensky or his western cowgirls any more, least of all ukrainians.
they entered ukrain preww2 they set them up as pro nazi with intentions they put them on the back burner till after they broke up the ussr. it’s blatant. the whole stage show all of it the timing of every act from corona to little saint james to global inflation and universal human trafficking of their creation of”refugees “all of if transparent as a plastic bag the intentions.
so… the great ukrainian land grab psyop called an ‘anti-terrorist operation’ is now on life support with most of its banderite enthusiasts. these nato-nazi thugs committed terrorism, war crimes and genocide for 10 plus years, now hoping to talk a peace deal? hard to talk a talk and walk the walk when you shoot yourself in both legs with minsk 1 and minsk 2. the only minsk they can look forward to now is that minsky moment…
leave it to ukrainians to conduct an anti-terror operation using terrorist means.
or is shelling civilians helter skelter from 2014 on not considered terrorism in that newfangled witches brew they call the international rules-based order thigamajig. looks like the jig is up for that devilish brew.
when the ukrainians realize that ihor kolonoskipy and elenskys dream of zion was paid with ukrainian christian blood…it wont be pretty. new pogrom..
russia needs to keep going, until odessa is back under russian control. they only want negotiations for a ceasefire, in order to pause, restock and start all over again. does russia need the hassle?
when i become prez i will expel ramses and saxon from their lgbt trailer and give zelensky a green card