WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

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But why did it take them so long? (For Russia's intervention in Donetsk?)

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For those who well remember Mashika's many posts about the war — and all her personal experiences, too — Putin's reluctance to step in early and assist was one of the things that hugely infuriated her at the time when she was fighting with all her heart and soul for the Donbass militia.

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A monument to “Heroes of the Undeclared War” appeared in the DPR.
“10 years ago, the heroic story of the defense of Donbass began. All these years, our soldiers have courageously defended their region and all of Russia in battle with the enemy. Thanks to their courage and bravery, we survived and now live in our big country,” Pushilin wrote.
Low bow to the defenders of Motherland!

• Tensions escalate as Russia sends submarines to Cuba:
  

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iqjRVlaResE

Ascent of the Cold War Russia has alarmed the West by deploying nuclear-capable submarines in America's backyard in Cuba. This provocative action has heightened tensions drawing parallels to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

• Russian Warships Hold Drills In The Atlantic

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2mCzq6Re3EM

• Putin Sends Warships To Just 25 Miles From US Coast: Russia Navy Drills In Atlantic Amid Ukraine War

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FhnewmzQUQM

• JUST IN: Pentagon Holds Press Briefing As Russian Warships Approach Cuba Coast:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=KJQQ3fCQckQ

• Meanwhile, Zelenskiy:

• Ukraine All About $$$$ Says Senator Lindsey Graham!:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=N6QtqzSbN0g

My take on the Ukraine Situation!

cheers,
John 🦜🦋🌳

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🔥 The fire extinguishing process at an industrial enterprise in Kiev has been ongoing for almost 24 hours, after a night combined attack.

Despite the fact that in Ukraine they announced that Russian missiles and drones were shot down 100%, Ukrainian TG channels report that 247 personnel, 111 pieces of equipment, and even 4 firefighting trains are working at the scene of the fire.

At the same time, international TG channels report that most of the missiles were aimed at the Vasilkov military airfield near Kiev, where several warehouses were targeted, which were detonating for about an hour and a half, and planes, and it was to Vasilkov that most of the missiles went. - FRWL reports

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Russian TG channels report:

"🇷🇺🇺🇦 An epic attack of UMPC glide bombs on buildings in the village of Tsvetkovoe in the direction of Zaporozhye, where a meeting of the commanders of units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was taking place. As a result of the air strike, the enemy suffered significant losses in personnel, including high-ranking officers. The distance to the front is about 15 km."

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#MariaTelegram
#Zakharova
Maria Zakharova, 12 June

NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg: "Arms supplies to Kyiv will become mandatory for NATO countries, they will be coordinated by command structures under the leadership of General Cavoli."

Do the EU countries understand that Washington is dragging them into a direct clash with Russia under the NATO flag? The hysterical pumping of the Western public with the thesis of the alleged "imminent aggression of Russia against Western countries" means only one thing - the Biden administration needs even more bloodletting on the European continent to keep both its own power and the American economy from collapsing.

👉https://t.me/s/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova

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🇺🇦 zelensky's former costume designer and stylist Alexandra “Yalta” Ryazantseva managed to serve in the air assault brigade for nine days before her death.

The ideological supporter of the Kyiv regime announced her transition from the terrorist defense to the Air Assault Forces on her fortieth birthday, June 2. On June 11, her sister already reported her death. Born in Crimea, Ryazantseva is known for her interviews, one of which is on video where she said about her plans to take Russian city Rostov-na-Donu.

At the same time, Ryazantseva’s relatives claim that she died not in battle, but after being beaten half to death by her “brothers,” and they refused to help her in intensive care. They say that the lack of medical care was associated with obvious signs of rape by servicemen of the 78th regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. - FRWL reports

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1801014703558152641

Ukr Terrible Day: Big Rus Missile Strike,
Record Losses, Retreat;
Quit Swiss Summit;
Zelensky Berlin

“Tuesday night Putin held a council of war at an undisclosed location but the Kremlin website verified that the meeting did take place”.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XR-Hv4EviIQ

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June 1️⃣2️⃣. Special military operation progress, stay tuned for tomorrow:

▪️In the morning, the Russian Armed Forces launched a group strike on aircraft parking areas and infrastructure of the AFU airbase, as well as on a temporary staging area for foreign mercenaries and preparation sites for the use of unmanned boats, the Defence Ministry said.

▪️Putin held a meeting on Tuesday evening with Defence Minister Belousov, Chief of the General Staff Gerasimov and district commanders, Peskov said.

▪️The AFU is planting anti-personnel mines in the border area of the Belgorod region, Governor Gladkov warned.

▪️Russian air defences repelled an AFU missile attack over Sevastopol, destroying all air targets high in the sky, most of them over the water area, Razvozhayev said.

▪️NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said he accepted Hungary's decision not to participate in the alliance's mission to coordinate aid to Ukraine.

▪️India will attend the Ukraine conference in Switzerland and will be represented at an 'appropriate level', the foreign ministry said.

http://t.me/ukraine_watch

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The G7 countries have agreed to allocate $50 billion to Ukraine by the end of 2024 using Russia’s frozen assets, AFP reported, citing the Elysee Palace.

According to a source, the G7 group already reached an agreement on the issue, and now experts need to make sure that it complies with the law and public financial regulations.

"G7 leaders have reached an agreement on the allocation of 50 billion dollars for Ukraine through the use of frozen Russian assets", - said in the office of the French president.

It is noted that the payout will occur "before the end of 2024".

Many analysts have noted that any measures related to the use of frozen Russian assets or derivatives thereof to provide financing for Ukraine could threaten significant reputational risks for the European financial market.

Earlier, many media outlets reported on the efforts of a number of non-European countries to persuade the European leadership to abandon plans to confiscate Russian assets.

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1801000009137107406

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Footage of the Russian Northern Fleet ship group arriving off the coast of Cuba was published by the Russian Defense Ministry. In addition to the nuclear submarine Kazan, it includes the frigate Admiral Gorshkov, the sea tanker Akademik Pashin and the salvage tug Nikolai Chiker.

"Russian ships are impressive and demonstrate might at sea. They will always be welcome here, they are friends and we appreciate their visit," a spectator on Havana's Malecon promenade told a Sputnik correspondent.

The Russian sailors were welcomed by the second commander of the Cuban Navy, Flotilla Captain Jose Luis Souto, and Russian Ambassador to Cuba Victor Coronelli.

"For more than 64 years we have maintained relations - first with the USSR, now with the Russians, and this is a demonstration of the continuing solidarity between the two peoples," another spectator of the ceremony, Maria Clara Castro, told the agency's correspondent.

On their way to Cuba, the ships held training sessions on repelling air attacks and using precision weapons. In particular, they practiced hitting targets at a distance of more than 600 kilometers.

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1801009694300885195

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1800970347325555059

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🤡🇦🇷Argentina is planning to give Ukraine five Super Etendard deck attack aircraft capable of carrying anti-ship missiles, according to local newspaper Infobae.

The Milei government is reportedly negotiating with Paris to exchange the planes for other military equipment. The idea is that France will repair them and hand them over to Ukraine.

Argentina bought the Super Etendard in 2018, but has never been able to use them. The fighters are in a state of disrepair due to a lack of parts, which the country cannot buy because of the British arms embargo.

http://t.me/ukraine_watch

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1800943405721158005

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Russian military strike Ukrainian airfield

Footage shared by a war correspondent appears to show a Su-27 fighter being wiped out in the city of Mirgorod

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In January 2020, tragedy struck in the skies above Iran. A Canadian court has now ruled that Ukraine International Airlines must pay compensation to the families of the victims on downed Flight 752. The court found the airline irresponsibly endangered its passengers.

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⚡️ The United States will expand its sanctions against Russia to restrict the sale of chips and other goods for Russia's military needs, Bloomberg reported, citing sources.

We are talking about goods under American brands, even if they are not produced in the country. First of all - in China. Certain Hong Kong companies will also fall under the restrictions.

Such plans were confirmed by the White House coordinator John Kirby without further details.

http://t.me/ukraine_watch

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1800883413378875789

https://x.com/eshaLegal/status/1800631278137381079

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I don't think it "refutes" the idea; but instead demonstrates that there were several agendas for Ukraine and Russia at different levels within the hierarchy of power.

LG is not at the top of the hierarchy but is clearly under-orders - a kind of middle manager. So what he says (if honest! - a big "if") is just what his bosses have told him - or told him to say.

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Can you be more concrete with this?

How do we know for sure that Mr. Graham is being "ordered" by something unexplained?

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I believe the top level (demonic) agenda for this was was primarily destruction of the West, secondarily destruction of as many other nations and people as possible - not for strategic gain, but destruction from sheer hatred; but the lower levels are given quasi plausible rationales for this and various up-front incentives (money, power, fame, sex - the usual stuff), so they can pretend to themselves (or perhaps sincerely believe!) that there is some long term plan for "the greater good" behind it all.

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This is what comes to mind.

The reason I have described the London School of Economics as the science of Genocide is to say that it has supported a Soft Kill regime in the western direction and a Hard Kill regime towards the east. Meaning that British infiltrations via things like the Bolsheviks and Maoists were based in the simplicity of putting a bullet in someone's head. Places like the United States have been subjected to Fabianism, leading to a slow deterioration in all things including health, softly killed by whatever you eat.

I would tend to agree that under that system--the umbrella based in the Bank of England--that destructiveness is hurled down upon humanity along multiple paths. One can probably provide the case that some Uber English envisaged vampirizing the United States for their own profit. However, I am having difficulty seeing how such a class benefits from the current situation in Ukraine.

One could perhaps say Mr. Graham is "controlled" in the sense that the ideas in his knowledge base are pre-conditioned and limited. At most, he has probably made a lifetime of anything I might have to say as the lies and propaganda of inferior, savage races. There's no plausible grounds for him to act any different, because his mind simply doesn't have those contents.

I would ask, if there is a superior influence on him, who is it?

If the loss of Ukraine is not a failure, whose purpose does it serve?

A site which translate the body language tells : "Itching at the base of the nostrils often indicates that you are not confident. There is something in the situation or in our interlocutor that arouses our suspicion. The intensity of the «unspoken» is all the more marked when one touches on the left side."

I will say that Zel here seems particularly uncomfortable, and we know that he is paranoid. I wonder if he is not totally losing confidence in his "friends".

Sen. Lindsey Graham coughs up the real reason why US is providing unlimited funding of Russia-Ukraine war

https://www.sott.net/article/492227-...ia-Ukraine-war

• Russia's Nuclear Warships ARRIVE in Cuba, U.S. in STRIKING distance:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=fCBAvKtKYIo

Finally there's some $10 trillion truth about Ukraine not this BS about democracy kumbaya

• Pepe Escobar : Russia Readies War With NATO:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=A4fll7taZTw

Exclusive Conversation with Pepe Escobar: Russia Readies War With NATO

In this eye-opening discussion, we sit down with the renowned geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar to delve into the escalating tensions between Russia and NATO. Escobar provides an in-depth analysis of Russia's strategic maneuvers, the implications for the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, and the potential for a broader conflict. We also explore the recent deployment of Russian warships and submarines to Cuba, adding a new dimension to the geopolitical chessboard. Don't miss this critical conversation that sheds light on the future of global stability.

• Something HUGE Is About To Happen:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DQCz_ONKMJk

The Kremlin has officially labelled the United States as an “enemy” state for the first time, reflecting the deteriorating relations between Moscow and Washington.

• G7 agree to use Russian assets to fund Ukraine :facepalm:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_6DKEPAfZZ4

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The United States sent the USS Helena submarine to Cuba amid the presence of Russian warships there, according to the US Southern Command .

It claims that the submarine is in the Gulf of Cuba "as part of a routine port visit as it transits the US Southern Command geographic area of responsibility." However, the Associated Press writes that the US Navy submarine arrived “as a show of force” in response to the visit of Russian ships.

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US media panic over Russian ships' routine visit to Cuban port

US news outlets and agencies triggered a panic chain reaction after a small group of Russian military vessels arrived at Cuban ports, despite both Russian and Cuban military officials stating that the stop-over was not a threat to anyone.
In particular, the Russian Defense Ministry stated that the trip’s objective was to show the flag "and ensure a naval presence in an operationally important area of the far ocean zone."

Cuba’s Defense Ministry added that none of the Russian ships were carrying nuclear weapons.

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After zelensky’s visit to Riyadh yesterday, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, refused to participate in the G7 summit, which begins today in Italy.

Mohammed bin Salman sent a telegram to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, thanking her for the invitation to the summit and apologizing for being unable to take part in the event due to “obligations related to monitoring the organization of the Hajj.”

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New US sanctions backfire: dollar dips as yuan dominates Moscow Exchange

"The share of the yuan, which now amounts to more than 50 percent on the Moscow Exchange, will probably be the main settlement currency for many transactions," Yaroslav Kabakov, director of strategy at the investment company Finam, tells Sputnik, commenting on the US sanctions against Russia's Moscow Exchange (MOEX), National Clearing Centre and National Settlement Depository (NSD).

After the US and its allies froze Russia's sovereign assets and cut the nation off from SWIFT, the yuan has replaced the US dollar as the most traded currency in Russia in 2023. In May, the share of the yuan in Russia's foreign exchange market reached a new high of 53.6 percent; it also increased by 1.3 percentage points in the over-the-counter market, up to 39.2 percent, compared to the previous month, according to the Russian Central Bank.

The US Treasury's announcement of restrictions against third countries trading with Russia is likely to bolster the de-dollarization trend. US secondary sanctions "created an incentive to diversify away from the US dollar to avoid these sanctions," Antoine Berthou, an economist at the Banque de France, warned in his September 2023 study.

Despite Western headlines claiming that the Russian currency "swings to opaque trading territory", the ruble has not been weakened by the US measures and the Russian market participants didn't panic, according to Sputnik's pundits.

"It was clear that [Russian] regulators were ready for this kind of solution. The Central Bank warned Russian banks in advance about how it would act. By and large, there is no surprise here," Nikita Maslennikov, an economist, the head of finance and economics at the Institute of Contemporary Development and a leading expert at the Center for Political Technologies, tells Sputnik.

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Here is part of an article by Lucas Leiroz reminding us we may be to task to De-Nazify the west:

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Nazism is no longer a mere tool of war for the West against Russia, but is on its way to becoming the real ideology of many Western states. This is a direct consequence of the infamous policy of asylum for Nazi criminals in the post-WWII times, when the US and Europe granted amnesty to German generals, politicians and scientists in exchange for military and scientific secrets. Many Nazis who were exiled to Western countries ended up reaching high positions in the state administration, which resulted in the progressive Nazification of the Western political mentality.

For a long time, this Nazification remained hidden due to the global memory of Germany’s crimes in the WWII. However, Ukraine has been the excuse for NATO’s Nazi tendencies to become public. The normalization and rehabilitation of Nazism is not a simple side effect of the current conflict, but a real project on the part of the West to implement Russophobia on a global level. Only a Russian victory in the special military operation and the reconfiguration of the geopolitical order can stop the advance of Nazism.

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Joseph P. Farrell

News And Views From The Nefarium June 13 2024
21 minutes - Posted Jun 13, 2024

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More horizontal escalation rhetoric from Dmitri Medvedev (and it's very important rhetoric too), and a bit of commentary on the end of the petro-dollar agreement between the USSA and Saudi Arabia:


West has declared ‘war without rules’ on Russia – Medvedev

Saudi Arabia ends 80-year petrodollar deal with US for multi-currency sales

Arming Ukrainian neo-Nazis a sign of US desperation - ex-Pentagon official

RT
Wed, 12 Jun 2024

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Azov Brigade

Washington's decision to greenlight the use of US-supplied weapons by Kiev's notorious Azov Brigade is a desperate move that only reinforces Russia's claim that it is fighting neo-Nazism in Ukraine, Michael Maloof, a former senior security policy analyst at the US Department of Defense, has told RT.

On Monday, the US State Department scrapped a ban on deliveries of arms to the Azov Brigade, which had been imposed by Congress in 2018 over the unit's ties to neo-Nazism. According to the agency, a recent review has found "no evidence" of the military formation being in violation of the Leahy Law, which prohibits Washington from aiding foreign security force units that violate human rights with impunity.

"Clearly, the Azov group didn't go from sinners to saints overnight," Maloof said in an interview on Tuesday. "There still is a list of atrocities that they had committed, human rights abuses... you still see them marching around as a group with their symbols, with their camaraderie and their discipline in support of fascism."

This change of stance on the Azov Brigade by Washington means "you no longer can really believe anything the State Department says, let alone the intelligence community," he stressed.

According to the former Pentagon official, the US move is "a sign of desperation" and a belated attempt to "bolster morale" among Ukrainians amid Russian gains on the front line this year.

"I question the rationale of wanting to continue to support a Nazi outfit like this because the war is basically lost already. To support the Azov just adds fuel to the fire... and reinforces and bolsters Russia's point of view that this is about fighting Nazism in Ukraine," he said.

Maloof noted that the Azov fighters "haven't really performed" in combat; they were defeated by Russian forces in the battle for Mariupol early in the conflict. It is unlikely that they would do any better if they are armed with American weapons, he believes.


The lifting of the ban by the US is "an effort to just prick the Russians because of their adamant opposition to Nazism," which wouldn't lead to any changes on the battlefield, the former Pentagon official stressed.

Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday that Moscow's attitude towards Washington giving weapons to "ultra-nationalist armed units" like the Azov Brigade was "extremely negative." The US wants to "suppress" Russia so much that it is ready to go as far as to begin "flirting with neo-Nazis," he said.

https://www.sott.net/article/492208-...tagon-official

Something I've not seen before: Ukrainian troops surrendering to drones.

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Ukrainian DRG [sabotage and reconnaissance group] in Zaporozhye surrendered to Russian FPV drones.

In his video update yesterday, Alexander Mercouris remarked that a sole Azov soldier had just surrendered in Mariupol — having survived on his own deeply hidden under the Azovstal steel works for nearly two years, reportedly living on rats. (!)

A useful summary of Russia's conditions for the start of negotiations.

https://t.me/AussieCossack/18400

Putin announces conditions for the start of negotiations between the Russian Federation and Kiev.

1. Ukrainian troops must be completely withdrawn from the territory of the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.
2. Ukraine must not join NATO.
3. Russia wants a neutral, non-aligned, nuclear-free status of Ukraine.
4. All Western sanctions against the Russian Federation must be lifted.
5. The status of Crimea and Sevastopol, DPR and LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions as regions of the Russian Federation should be recorded in international treaties.
6. If Kiev and the West refuse the new peace proposal, further conditions will be different.

Russian troops never intended to capture Kiev – Putin 14 Jun, 2024

Moscow’s forces approached the Ukrainian capital only to persuade Vladimir Zelensky’s government to engage in talks, the president has said

Russian forces did not plan to storm Kiev when they advanced towards the Ukrainian capital in the first weeks of the conflict between the two countries, President Vladimir Putin has said.

During a meeting with his Russia’s top diplomats on Friday, Putin noted continued “speculation” in Ukraine and the West about the intentions of Russian units when they reached the outskirts of Kiev in late February 2022.

“But there was no political decision to storm the city of 3 million, no matter what anyone says due to their lack of thought,” Putin insisted.

According to the president, the Russian advance towards Kiev was “nothing more than an operation to persuade the Ukrainian regime to [make] peace.”

“The troops were there to motivate the Ukrainian side to engage in negotiations, to try to find an acceptable solution and this way end the war unleashed by Kiev against Donbass back in 2014,” he said.

The conflict between the Ukrainian government and the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, which erupted after the Western-backed coup in Kiev in February 2014, “posed a threat to the security of our country, to the security of Russia,” Putin stressed.

The move by Russia did result in talks that led to agreements that “in principle, suited both Moscow and Kiev,” he said, referring to the negotiations that took place between the two sides in the Turkish city of Istanbul in late March 2022.

“On March 29, 2022, we withdrew our troops from Kiev because we were assured that it was essential to create conditions for the conclusion of the political negotiating process,” the president recalled. “Our Western colleagues” insisted back then that the Ukrainian authorities “cannot sign such agreements… with a gun to their head,” he added.

However, Kiev and its Western backers have been claiming that the Russian withdrawal from the area of the Ukrainian capital was not a goodwill gesture by Moscow, but the result of military successes achieved by Kiev’s troops. Already in April 2022, US President Joe Biden said “the ‘Battle of Kiev’ was a historic victory... won by the Ukrainian people with unprecedented assistance by the US and our allies.”

The next day after the Russian troops left, the Ukrainian leadership seized their participation in the negotiating process, staging “a provocation” in Bucha, Putin said.

On April 1, 2022, the Zelensky government blamed the Russian military for massacring civilians in the town of Bucha near Kiev. Moscow denied those accusations, saying that the purported evidence of the crimes was fabricated.

"I think it’s clear now that this dirty provocation was needed to somehow explain the rejection of the results that had been achieved during the negotiations. The path to peace was again turned down,” the Russian leader stressed.

https://www.rt.com/news/599283-putin...ne-kiev-storm/

This may always have been inevitable, a further sign of the rebellion rising against the Ukrainian authorities' war on their own people. :flower:

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/113304

There is a resistance movement burning the vehicles of recruitment officers in Kiev. (two videos)

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As a lay person these conditions seem very reasonable, but you can bet your bottom dollar they won't be to the other side. These conditions are appearing in mainstream news reports, with a rather negative slant. Here's one from The Guardian posted a short while ago:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ar...ine-to-end-war
Vladimir Putin issues fresh demands to Ukraine to end war

Russian president’s new ultimatum comes as foreign envoys meet in Switzerland to discuss western-led peace plan.

Vladimir Putin has demanded that Kyiv cede more land, withdraw troops deeper inside its own country, and drop its Nato bid in order for him to end his war in Ukraine.

Putin’s fresh ceasefire demands were issued as envoys from more than 90 countries, including Ukraine, convene in Switzerland this weekend to discuss a western-led peace plan. Russia is not invited to the conference and the president’s remarks on Friday were likely to have been timed as a spoiler to that summit.

Speaking to diplomats at the Russian foreign ministry, Putin publicly updated his terms for ending the war in Ukraine for the first time since he launched a full-scale invasion in February 2022, when he demanded regime change in Kyiv and the country’s “demilitarisation”.

The US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, said Putin was in “no position” to make demands on Ukraine and could end the war he had started “today if he chose to do that.” The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said the offer could not be trusted and Putin would not stop his military offensive even if his ceasefire demands were met.

The new terms appear to be a nonstarter, as Putin staked out a maximalist position that included claims on land that Russia has “annexed” without holding under its military control. Putin demanded that Ukrainian troops leave the entire regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia and that they be declared Russian territory by international agreement, calling the issue “closed” for Russia.

“As soon as Kyiv says it is ready to make this decision, begins the actual pull-out of forces from those regions and formally declares the abandonment of its plans to join Nato, we will instantly, that very second, order a ceasefire and begin negotiations,” Putin said.

Putin also demanded that the west drop all financial sanctions against Russia as a precondition to a ceasefire. The US this week expanded sanctions on the Russian banking sector, currency trading on the largest Russian stock exchange, as well as chips and other technology. US Treasury officials said they were targeting the Russian financial infrastructure and access to third markets as Russia completed its “transition to a full war economy”.

The G7, which comprises the US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan, also agreed this week to use Russian sovereign assets frozen in the west as collateral for a $5bn loan package that would help keep Ukraine’s economy afloat in what had become a war of attrition against its Russian neighbour.

Putin on Friday decried the agreement as an attempt to provide “some kind of legal basis” for “theft”.

“Despite all the trickery, this theft will certainly remain a theft,” he told diplomats during the speech. “And it will not go unpunished.”

Ukraine and western countries were highly unlikely to agree to Putin’s terms. Kyiv has demanded that Russian troops leave its territory and that it return control over the 1991 borders, including the Crimean peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014. Ukrainian officials quickly dismissed Putin’s remarks as a “complete sham”.

“Of course, there is no novelty in this, no real peace proposals and no desire to end the war,” wrote Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the Ukrainian presidential administration. “But there is a desire not to pay for this war and to continue it in new formats. It’s all a complete sham. Therefore – once again – get rid of illusions and stop taking seriously the “[Russian proposals]” that are offensive to common sense.”

Podolyak interpreted Putin’s proposals as telling Ukraine to “give us your territories”, “give up your sovereignty and subjectivity”, and to “leave yourselves unprotected” by committing to a non-aligned status outside of Nato.