On Wednesday, Russian troops have been able to raise the flag in the Kursk region of the city of Russia in the Russian state media on Wednesday.
Therefore, Russian leadership does not necessarily hurry to agree to the 30 -day ceasefire presented by Ukraine and the United States.
President Vladimir Putin representative Dmitri Peskov Comment on Jedda’s statement that the expected statement is carefully expected. He said that Russia is studying carefully and waiting for more detailed information about the content of the discussions from the US Foreign Minister Marco from Rubio and from the US National Security Advisor From Michael Waltz.
Putin has previously outlined Russia’s agreement to the ceasefire on the condition that Ukraine would completely pull its troops from Russia’s partially occupied areas from Herson, Zaporizhja, Donetsk and Luhansk, and will abandon the pursuit of NATO membership.
Russia’s leadership has already recorded the above areas in the Constitution, so it is a bit difficult to withdraw from the demand.
Ukraine’s NATO membership requests The Trump administration has been verbally discharged, but there is no mention of regional donations in the ceasefire proposal.
A high-ranking Russian source for previously spoken to Reuters said that Russia had to discuss the terms of the ceasefire and get some guarantees.
– It is difficult for Putin to agree to this in his current form, the source told Reuters. He reminded that Putin’s negotiating positions are strong as Russia is progressing in battles.
The same feelings put into words On its telegram channel Vice -President of the Upper Room of the Russian Parliament, the Federal Council Constantin Kosaccov.
– Russia is progressing, and that’s why it is different with Russia. Any agreements (fully understanding the need for compromises) are made on our terms, not the US. And this is not an arrogance but an understanding that real agreements are still being written there, on the front. This also needs to be understood in Washington, Kosaccov wrote.
On the other hand, Kosaccov said it should not be disturbed by Russian and US negotiations with by -side comments.
– Let the negotiators work. The victory is ours.
Bloggers who support war are expected to oppose a weapon rejection. Bloggers who write about war on the Telegram message service have collected a large audience for their channels. They are named Z-bloggers according to the Z-letter of the war as a symbol of the war.
For example, the Zapiski Veterana channel wrotethat a ceasefire proposal is a “obvious scam and fraud that gives to the hohols [halventava pilkkanimi ukrainalaisista] the opportunity to gather again and breathe. ”
The same lines have a Colonelcassad channel Boris rozhin, which thinks It is a classic scam: for a month, the negotiating process is being acted in order to allow Ukraine to renew its armed forces and crews.
Z-bloggers do not end up, but it all depends on the snapshot of Vladimir Putin and his immediate circle.
Russian leadership should at least try to play time and present their own counter -proposals on the terms of the ceasefire. Russia would surely want to get at least the Kursk area back before stopping the military.
In this game, Kreml has to take into account Donald Trump’s sensitive leather. Fighting a ceasefire offer could anger the US President, and it would be difficult for Russia to act with an irritated Trump. Instead of leaving intervals, Russia could gain new sanctions and Ukraine new weapons deliveries.
In the case of possible negotiations in Russia, on the other hand, there would be an opportunity to get through its demands when Trump’s administration seems to be in a hurry to clean the war away from the political order, and it does not even find it necessary to propose to be a great Ukrainian friend.
It may also be that Russia wants to achieve some kind of agreement before the European countries that were shocked by the Trump administration were able to straighten their own lines to support Ukraine.
For Russian citizens, a ceasefire would certainly be available for sale. For example, a Russian Field research team in November in the survey 53 % of respondents supported peace talks and 36 % of the continuation of war.
As many as 79 percent of the respondents said they supported Putin if he stopped war immediately and sign a peace agreement with Ukraine.
A steep line of nationalist districts may rage against the weapon rejection, but Putin’s administration is likely to keep these sound weights under control.
The kind of movement as Yevgeni prigozhin Wagner wage soldiers’ short rebellion project in the summer of 2023 is now not visible. The mercenary groups now in Ukraine are much more strictly under the control of the Ministry of Defense.