Russian state media is saying that negotiations between Russia and the Zelensky regime are in progress and they will soon reach a positive outcome.
I think it’s bullshit, myself. The Russians have no intention of a negotiated peace. This war has cost them too much. So they might claim that they want a negotiated settlement, but they are not going to stop until they have firm control of the entire country. Not just physical control, or even political control, but also economic control.
And the Russians’ aim is obvious. They want to carve up Ukraine into at least three pieces, possibly as many as five: Crimea, Novo Rossiya (the east and south of present-day Ukraine, including Kharkov, Odessa and all the coast facing the Black Sea), “Kievan Ukraine”, and possibly Lviv/western Ukraine and Transnistria.
Carving up the country into smaller pieces will make them all easier to control by Russia. It will also paradoxically help these regions, as they will be ethnically homogenous and no longer have the problems of before.
And there is no doubt that the Russians will achieve their goal, because the Ukraine army is broken. There is no longer any overall defensive posture, command and control are a completely broken. All that remains is to chew up the individual units that are still resisting. This might take a maximum of 30 days, and perhaps as little as seven days.
This is of course assuming that the Americans do not carry out a false flag operation — which they might, as they probably know exactly how bad the situation for Ukraine really is.
Moscow and Kiev may soon come to agreement – Russian negotiator. If You Believe This You’re Too Gullible https://t.co/WWJov3TNWW
— Bob For A Full Brexit (@boblister_poole) March 14, 2022
Here’s from the RT article:
A member of the Russian negotiating team, Leonid Slutsky, has said he believes the “significant progress” he has observed in talks between Moscow and Kiev might soon lead the two sides in the conflict to sign an agreement.
Speaking to RT Arabic on Sunday, Slutsky – who also chairs the State Duma’s Committee on International Affairs – said, “If we compare the positions of both delegations at the talks, at the very beginning and today, we see significant progress.”
“I am happy to report that, according to my personal expectations, in the next few days, this progress may develop into a joint position of the delegations and into documents to sign.”
Slutsky stressed that signing such documents would be a matter of “paramount importance,” as it would provide a basis for de-escalation and for “saving many people who are dying today.”
Russia has consistently accused Ukrainian “nationalists” of using civilians as cover and of preventing their evacuation through humanitarian corridors. Slutsky described these alleged actions as “monstrous” in their “cynicism,” but said the crisis would be addressed “in the very near future.” Kiev has consistently denied it has obstructed the evacuation, and blamed Russian shelling for preventing the safe passage of people.
Ukraine has nonetheless apparently witnessed some progress in the negotiations, too. Presidential aide Mikhail Podolyak said in an interview with the Russian newspaper Kommersant that the two sides were approaching a compromise. He opined that the Russian side was “already seeing things much more adequately,” but noted that it would likely be some time before it “fully, 100%, understands the situation it has got into.””