ISW explains why Russia mimics the desire for negotiations

Analysts suggest that Russia’s feigned “interest” in the negotiations should force the West to support territorial concessions.

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The Kremlin feigns interest in the negotiations, and actually aims to persuade the West to make concessions on the issue of Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty. The formal head of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, seeks to destroy the Ukrainian state. This is stated in a report by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).

“Putin and the Kremlin have dramatically increased their expansionist rhetoric towards Ukraine since December 2023 and increasingly indicate that Russia intends to occupy more territory in Ukraine and aims to completely destroy the Ukrainian state and identity, ” said the report.

Military actions and offensives in the Kharkiv region indicate that Moscow is more interested in achieving the long-term goal of a maximalist victory in Ukraine than any agreement to immediately freeze the front line at its current level.

In addition, Putin views continued Russian control over currently occupied Ukrainian territory as a non-negotiable basis for negotiations, ISW recalled.

A Russian victory in the war would not only eliminate the threat of Ukraine as a potential adversary during a possible conflict with NATO, but it would also give the Russian Federation access to millions of people it could conscript into the army. , and in most of Ukraine. resources and industrial potential.

Analysts believe that Putin views success in Ukraine as a prerequisite for war with NATO.

We remind you that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said that Vladimir Putin’s proposals to end the war in Ukraine are an ultimatum, and his actions are a revival of Nazism.

Putin called a “condition” for the “sustainability of Europe”

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