Russian President Vladimir Putin may be open to a cease-fire in his war with Ukraine, so long as the country could still declare victory, a new report by the New York Times found.
Putin, still confident in his forces, said that Russia’s goals have not changed. In his annual year-end press conference last week, Putin warned that there would be no peace solution in Ukraine until Russia achieves its overarching goals, the “denazification” and demilitarization of Ukraine.
Putin’s message might be different now, as he has reportedly signaled he is ready to make a deal. Since September, Putin has signaled that he is open to a pause in fighting along the current lines, which is much shorter than his intention to dominate Ukraine, according to the Times who cited two former senior Russian officials.
According to the United Nations, more than 10,000 civilians have been killed and 18,500 have been injured since the start of the war nearly two years ago.
I am from Russia and i am frustrated with how stupid and misleading this news is.
Presidency is ending soon and Putin need to go through the voting.
Everyone knows it’s a circus with clowns yet Putin need to convince everyone he will be legit president. For the fifth time, after rewriting constitution, hahaha
Also Putin need a timeout to make weapons and train new army. While there is “unlimited” supply of bodies he can throw to die at Ukraine, it’s already costs him some money and gives idk how much payoffs. Just assume not much, cuz i haven’t heard anything about war in the country.
But i shouldn’t be taken as a reliable source of information from here. I can’t stand watching russian propaganda tv
Stay safe.
Thank you, there are many people who feel like they have become an enemies to all of the world and their own country
Same. It’s crazy man.
Yeah, pretty much my takeaway. It’s just a tactic. Delay, regroup, bullshit election, then more “denazification” (Christ on a shitstick).
Sorry, bro, but you’re fucked. I don’t think Russia comes out of this thing in anything resembling a decent, stable, thriving country. Putin fucked you, no lube. Demographic realities imply that your population will continue to shrink for generations to come.
Putin need a timeout to make weapons and train new army
nailed it
“Voting” hah!!! LOL
I’m really sorry you have to live under those conditions. I can understand how maddening that must be. Hopefully Lemmy has been able to help you see past the Russian propaganda machine.
А я считаю “плохой мир лучше хорошей войны”, так что пусть лучше хоть какое то перемирие
It’s not a bad peace, it’s a chance for Putin to rebuild his army and try again. He’s also hoping for a Trump win. So no.
Same chance for Ukrainian strengthen defense Anyway Ukraine will become most armed country in the world
Dude, you should learn history. It’s exactly what happened before WW2
he could literally pull out anytime he wanted and claim victory. His supporters lap up anything he tells them.
Trump should be allowed to call himself president so long as he never steps foot in Washington and promises only to say it on ONAN and Fox.
And since he runs the state propaganda/news stations, nothing would stop him from claiming that they successfully killed all the Nazis in Ukraine. “We went in and killed all the Nazis so we’re pulling all our troops out.”
Of course, they would need to give back the territories that they annexed as well as all the children that they stole. Not to mention pay reparations for all the damage that they did/suffering they caused. Again, though, Putin could spin this to his people. “We only temporarily annexed those areas to denazify them and always planned on returning them to Ukraine. Same with the kids. And since we accidentally destroyed some infrastructure in ‘helping’ Ukraine rid itself of Nazis, we’re generously helping them rebuild.”
Of course, nobody but those who buy Russian propaganda will believe this, but Putin just needs the appearance of everything going according to his plans.
Nah, Trump openly claiming it without repercussions is EXACTLY how we still have MAGAts following him. “Stop the steal” is functionally identical to, “I’m still president.”
Another thing is, access to Black Sea is too juicy military, and now with more ports in Ukraine, also commercially. Add to it the wheat Ukraine can grow and Russian pride. He probably already promised these things and human resources to his moronic oligarchs. He won’t take his words back.
He has a paranoiac disorder. He won’t trust his propaganda channels to listen to him.
That tracks. These peoples are beyond rationality.
This is the same thing he’s been asking for a year & a half. Fuck Putin to straight to hell.
It’s stalemate. He’d be better off claiming the captured territories til his re-election so that Russians believe it’s over. Afterwards there’ll be of course another false flag attack to kick the cannon fodders deeper into Ukraine.
Of course “Ukraine attacked us after peaceful 6 months”!
Didn’t he already claim them?
Good point. I still think his propaganda machines will come up with something.
IF Putin is somewhat wanting a pause,
THEN enforce a clusterfuck of CombinedArms hellchaos on him.
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No reason whatsoever to believe anything that Putin says, clandestinly or not. And NYT is just peddling this crap on.
Best I would do maybe is anesthesia for 1 of 8 amputations? I mean after a fair trial and such ofcourse. But I mean when he’s found guilty after the trial and before the whole dragging behind a truck on a chain through town. It could be after that too. But then if everything is already amputated like where do you drag the body from? Gotta leave the balls at least right?
No cease-fire. The military-industrial complex needs profits.
I think it’s funny that when it first started and Russia tried to negotiate it was all, “boo! Fuck you Putin!”
Now it’s all, “why won’t you negotiate? you fucking asshole!”
“When it first started” is such a weird passive way to say “when Russia invaded Ukraine” that I can’t trust anything else you say is without an agenda. But whatever, I’ll bite:
If people break down your door and murder, kidnap, rape, and torture members of your family and then start living in some of the rooms of your house, you don’t reset boundaries to where they are now! I can demand you “negotiate” with the people that did these crimes, but the negotiations start with them getting completely the fuck out, being punished for everything they did, and you being compensated for all of their crimes. No sane person would say, “well, just let them keep one room as part of a truce.”
Countries cannot profit off of illegally invading other ones. It literally incentivizes more war if they can just keep part of what they invaded, especially when done by countries with large militaries.
Not to mention, Putin had every chance to have a stalemate dozens of times. When he invaded Crimea. When he sent mercenaries into the Donbas. When he shelled the Donbas. When he shot down MH17. Putin had dozens of opportunies to walk away from the war and get away with annexing huge regions of Europe.
He chose murder, rape, torture, war, and there needs to be consequences for the Russian state.
“The negotiations start with them getting out”
Ideally yes… pragmatically no. Ukraine lost how many troops in the 2023 counteroffensive and got essentially nowhere? If Ukraine’s goal is to reclaim all of it’s territory, it’s going to be a pyrrhic victory. It will cost more than the territory is actually worth, the war and conscription policy have already demographically ruined Ukraine (e.g all the young people they need fled the country).
“No sane person would say ‘let them keep a room’”
Because they have the ability to remove that person. Ukraine does not, and it’s corruption and underperformance in the battlefield suggests that it may never no matter how many weapons the West gives them or conscripts they send to the trenches.
You are arguing for a perfect victory at all costs. The real world doesn’t work like this, and it would be deeply immoral if it did.
