The goal of the Russian president is to understand his country’s army more territories
The president of Russia Vladimir Putin It intends to continue the war in Ukraine until the West agrees with its own terms for peace, unabashed by Donald Trump’s threats to tougher sanctions, and its territorial claims can be expanded as long as the Russian forces.
Putin, who ordered the invasion of Russian soldiers into Ukraine In February 2022, after eight years of war in the eastern provinces, between the Ukrainian army and the separatists supported by Moscow, he believes that the Russian economy and the country’s army are strong enough to cope with the additional Western sanctions. On Monday, the US president appeared annoyed with Putin’s refusal to agree on a ceasefire and announced that many weapons would be delivered to Ukraine, including Patriot’s missile-air missile systems. He also threatened to impose additional sanctions on Russia if a peace agreement is not reached within 50 days.
The three Russian sources, who are aware of the views of the Kremlin’s top executives, said Putin would not stop war due to pressures from the West and believes that Russia can withstand even more economic difficulties, including the duties that threatened to impose Wass.
“Putin believes that no one has seriously discussed the details of peace with Ukraine, including Americans. So he will continue until he gets this he wants, “he told Reuters one of these sources that he asked not to be named.
Despite the many telephone communications between Trump and Putin, as well as the visits of US special envoy Steve Witkov to Moscow, the Russian leader believes that no detailed discussions have been held on the basis of a peace plan, he added. “Putin appreciates his relationship with Trump and had good talks with Witkov but Russia’s interests go ahead,” the person noted.
The White House did not respond to a request to comment on this information. Putin’s terms for peace include the legally binding promise that NATO will not expand to the east, that Ukraine will preach neutrality and limit its armed forces, that its Russian residents will be protected and that Kiev will be protected. He is also willing to discuss a security guarantee for Ukraine, which will include the Great Powers, but it is not clear how this would work, the sources cited by the agency said.
Ukraine President Volodimir Zelenski has said that his country will never recognize Russian sovereignty in the occupied territories and that Kiev reserves the right to decide whether or not he wants to join NATO. His office did not respond to a request for a report on the report.
A second source who knows how Kremlin’s executives think that Putin considers Moscow’s goals much more important than any possible financial loss due to western pressures. He is also not worried about the US threats that they will impose duties on China and India because they buy Russian oil.
Two of the sources said that Russia has the upper hand on the battlefield and its economy, which is organized by war needs, superior to NATO in production of basic ammunition, such as artillery shells.
Russia, already in control of one fifth of Ukrainian territory, occupied about 1,415 square kilometers in the previous three months, according to data from DeepstateMap, a map of the front -based front.
“Eating comes the appetite,” said the first source, meaning that Putin can seek to understand other territories before the war stops. The other two sources, speaking separately, confirmed this guess. Russia today controls Crimea, which it annexed in 2014, all of Luhansk’s province, over 70% of Donetsk, Zaporizia and Peninsula and a few territories in Kharkov, Sumi and Dnipropetrovsk. In public, the Russian president says that the first five areas (the Crimean peninsula and the four eastern provinces) are now part of Russia and Kiev must withdraw its forces in order to have peace.
Putin could continue the war until Ukraine’s defense collapses and expand his territorial claims, sources said. “Russia will act on the basis of Ukraine’s weaknesses,” the third source said, adding that Moscow may stop its business after understanding the four eastern provinces if it encounters strong resistance. Otherwise, it can understand even more territories in Dnipropetrovsk, Sumi and Kharkov.
Zelenski argues that Russia’s summer attack is not as successful as Moscow would hop. His top associates, who admit that the Russian forces are superior, say that Ukrainian soldiers hold their lines and force the Russians to pay a heavy price for their profits.
Referring to the threats of the duties, the second source of Reuters said Trump had little influence on Putin and implied that even if Washington imposes duties on Russian crude buyers, Moscow will again find some way to have it on international markets.
“Putin realizes that Trump is an unpredictable man who can do unpleasant things but is hoping to avoid upset him,” the source said.
One of the sources also said that in the coming months there would be a scaling of the crisis and emphasized how dangerous the tensions between the world’s two largest nuclear forces are. He predicted, however, that the war would continue.