Putin is trying to demoralize: he predicts the end of the war due to the lack of ammunition in the Armed Forces
29 January 00:06
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has said that the war will continue for another 1.5-2 months if Ukraine runs out of sponsorship money and ammunition. The Kremlin leader said this in an interview with Russian propagandist Pavel Zarubin, Komersant ukrainskyi reports
Putin emphasized that he had previously sent signals to former US President Joe Biden regarding a peaceful settlement of the war against Ukraine.
“If its (Ukraine’s – ed.) Western sponsors want to achieve peace, the path is very simple,” the Kremlin dictator added.
Putin cynically noted that it was Western leaders who “persuaded Ukrainians to continue the war.” According to the Kremlin dictator, Ukrainian officials, including high-ranking ones, publicly confirmed this.
The Russian dictator also said that in 2022 he received “signals from the Ukrainian leadership that he would fight to the last Ukrainian.”
Putin on negotiations with Ukraine
He brazenly stated that the negotiations between the aggressor country Russia and Ukraine began with the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Moscow offered Kyiv to “leave” the “LPR” and “DPR” – and then there would be no fighting.
“We actually started negotiations immediately after the start of the JFO. At first, we told the Ukrainian leadership of the time: people in the DPR and LPR do not want to be part of Ukraine, leave, and that’s it, that’s the end of it,” the illegitimate president said.
He cynically added that there would be “no fighting, no war,” but Kyiv decided otherwise. But he forgot that it was the Russians who did not stop bombing Ukraine in the first weeks of the full-scale invasion.
According to Putin, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is now “an illegitimate leader and cannot lift his own ban on negotiations with Russia.”
“You can negotiate with anyone, but because of his illegitimacy, he has no right to sign anything. If he wants to take part in the negotiations, I will select those people who will negotiate with him,” the Russian leader said.
He also emphasized that possible peace talks should guarantee the security of both Ukraine and Russia “for a serious, long, historical perspective.”
“The question is the final signing of the documents. There can be no mistakes, no roughness. Everything must be perfected,” the Russian dictator said.
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Trump’s position on Ukraine
During the election campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly said that he would stop the war in Ukraine within 24 hours of taking office. Sometimes he suggested that it could happen even before that. In any case, this deadline has already passed.
Also during the election, the media spread the so-called “Trump Plan”. The idea was that the United States would use its influence to stop the war, taking into account the status quo. To do this, Trump would force Putin and Zelenskyy to sit down at the negotiating table. If Putin does not agree to negotiate, the United States will give Ukraine all the weapons it needs to win on the battlefield. If Zelenskyy refuses to negotiate, the United States will completely stop helping Ukraine.
This plan, in its various variations, stipulates that Russia retains the territories it temporarily occupies and that Ukraine does not join NATO.
However, later Trump seemed to “forget” about this plan. In particular, he voiced scenarios in which he would force Russia to capitulate due to the decline in world oil prices.
After Trump was elected President of the United States, one of his advisors, Brian Lanza, said that Ukraine should forget about Crimea. The president-elect’s entourage, however, was quick to deny this statement and said that Lanza could not speak for Trump.
Currently, the future US Special Representative for Russia and Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, is talking about 100 days in which he wants to reach some kind of agreement.
