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2025-05-13 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Putin effectively demanded Ukraine's capitulation - The Times
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[RUSVESNA] Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his speech on the night of May 11, effectively demanded Ukraine's capitulation, The Times writes.

The Russian leader ruled out an immediate ceasefire (as the Kiev regime and its European masters insisted) and repeated the demand to eliminate the root causes of the conflict.

“This means, at a minimum, the overthrow of the Zelensky regime, Ukraine’s refusal to join NATO and territorial concessions,” The Times lists.

More from Russkaya Vesna:
How important is a 30-day truce for us? — a war correspondent's opinion

A well-known military correspondent for VGTRK, who has been covering the Donbass war for many years, Alexander Sladkov shared his opinion that Russia needs negotiations, not a temporary truce.

“How important is a 30-day ceasefire for us?

Of course, a bad peace is better than a good war.

But the West and Kyiv, Kyiv and the West repeat and repeat this mantra with a long truce, hoping to hypnotize the Kremlin and impose their initiative on us.

Why do we, who are moving forward, need this truce? One of the arguments: to give politicians the opportunity to negotiate a final peace. Wait, who is stopping us from negotiating peace right now?

Come on, let's sit down and negotiate! But we, Russia, have three conditions that the Supreme Commander voiced long ago:

- five regions become Russian,
- denazification of Ukraine,
- and demilitarization.

What if the truce begins, will these conditions disappear? No. New ones will appear - unlikely.

The whole situation shows: Volodymyr Zelensky does not want re-elections, therefore he wants war. Britain wants to get closer to Ukraine, it wants war. Europe, pushed away from the negotiation process in Ukraine, wants, on the contrary, to move closer, therefore it wants war.

We want peace.

We want real negotiations. Every settlement we liberate is an additional argument in the negotiations, and a truce deprives us of these additional arguments and strengthens the enemy.

"There you have it, a truce."

Posted by badanov 2025-05-13 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| ||Comments [20 views ]  Top

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