Kyiv is advancing within the western Russian area of Kursk. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj is hoping to get a bargaining chip. However Kremlin chief Putin would not wish to speak beneath strain.
The pinnacle of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, doesn’t wish to negotiate with Kiev within the face of the Ukrainian counteroffensive on Russian territory. “The president has mentioned very clearly that after the assaults, extra exactly the invasion, started within the Kursk area, there may be no speak of negotiations,” Russian Overseas Minister Sergei Lavrov mentioned on state tv Russia on the margins of Putin’s go to to Azerbaijan. Lavrov introduced that Putin would give an evaluation of the scenario quickly.
Reviews of contacts between the opponents, established by intermediaries corresponding to Qatar or Turkey, had been nothing greater than rumours, Lavrov defined.
Ukraine, which has been defending itself in opposition to a conflict of aggression in Russia for greater than two years, launched a counter-offensive about two weeks in the past and superior into the Kursk area in western Russia. For the primary time, Kiev has moved the conflict into enemy territory. Russia continues to occupy giant components of jap and southern Ukraine.
Earlier than the Ukrainian counterattack, Putin had demanded additional reductions in Kiev territory as a prerequisite for peace talks. The present silence of the Russian president on the disaster in his personal military is just not a brand new phenomenon. Even after defeating the Russian military previously, the pinnacle of the Kremlin spoke solely after an extended pause and generally after sitting out the disaster.
