Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

I see in the news that Trump has demanded a ceasefire in the conflict via his truthsocial platform. I wonder if the Syrian collapse has rattled Putin to get on the blower to Trump to attempt to salvage some form of victory in Ukraine.

Taking that bit of the Kursk region grows more valuable as a bargaining chip as Putin's forces weaken.

Peskov repeats once again Russia's position and conditions following Trumps comments.

"We have carefully read the statement made by US President-elect Donald Trump after his meeting with Macron and Zelensky in Paris. President Putin has repeatedly said that Russia is open to negotiations on Ukraine and welcomes peace initiatives, primarily from the countries of the Global South, our BRICS partners - China, India, Brazil, South Africa, as well as the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are working on the humanitarian track.

Our position on Ukraine is well known. The conditions for an immediate cessation of hostilities were outlined by President Putin in June of this year in his speech at the Russian Foreign Ministry. It is important to recall here that it was Ukraine that refused and continues to refuse negotiations. Moreover, Zelensky, by his decree, banned himself and his administration from any contacts with the Russian leadership. This position has not changed. Meanwhile, to enter a peaceful trajectory, Zelensky only needs to cancel this decree and give instructions to resume dialogue based on the Istanbul agreements and taking into account the realities on the ground.

As for the figures given about losses on both sides, it is obvious that they are presented in the Ukrainian interpretation and reflect the official position of Ukraine. The real figures of losses are completely different. Ukrainian losses are many times higher than the losses on the Russian side.Further continuation of such a pace leads to the complete exhaustion of the Ukrainian army and a decrease in the mobilization age to 18 years, as well as the tightening of forced mobilization. However, even all this will not change the catastrophic situation developing for the Ukrainian army. For Ukraine itself and international observers, this is not news."

Everything your mates the Russians have done to others deserves to be done back to them ten times over. Steal their children, destroy their dams, bomb their apartment blocks, decimate their energy supplies and let them freeze over winter. See how you like it for a change.

Sounds like first thing is for Ukraine to amend it's constitution to even allow talks to start which other posters have correctly mentioned earlier. It sounds difficult to even start discussing things before that happens, pointless even discussing things if it is illegal to do so.

Given Trumps suggestions about China's leading role in things everything will need to be legal before any talks can even start. Also with Zelensky's collapsing recent approval ratings from his citizens, approving negotiations when he has previously rejected far better terms could be the last straw to his Presidency.

Oh dear….

I don't think we know what exactly Russia's terms are at the moment. The last position was clearly set out by Putin in June before the Swiss conference, but that was again quickly rejected by Zelensky and Nato so maybe it has changed now.

First thing is for Zelensky to allow formal talks to commence under Ukrainian law going by the official statement.

No, first thing is for Russia to show good faith in negotiations for the first time under Putin, instead of just demands for surrender and to "Sudetenland" Ukraine and to seek to obtain by bad faith diplomacy what it could not obtain through its illegal war of aggression.

LOL!!

So your dismissal of those figures relies primarily on the Russians accurately striking Ukranian positions with their various long range weapons. Sounds like you haven't been paying attention - there's ample evidence (geolocated and corroborated by reliable sources) of the Russians bombing themselves and innocent Ukranians with much of their weaponry; but very little showing them hitting staffed military targets.

As for "why would they talk about conscripting 18 year olds" … eh, the only "they" talking about that are Americans and miscellaneous other Westerners. Zelenskyy has been very clear on the matter: there's no point conscripting 18-year-olds while the 25-year olds still haven't received all the weaponry and munitions that were promised. Russian, on the other hand, is already indoctrinating eight-year-olds - what does that say about the manpower situation on the Russian side?

So you just made it up.... Glad we cleared that up.

I don't suppose you will be providing sources for those officially stated statements.....

It not like you jumped on some talking points you liked with no understanding....

Where did Ukraine request negotiations?

I see a figure of 400k being mentioned by Trump. Not sure the context, could be total dead/injured in Ukraine or a large figure given to him for various reasons. Just the usual heads-up, anti-Ukrainian individuals will want to latch onto this and concern troll about Zelensky/West/Media "lying" about casualties. Just to pre-empt the usual.

For a while I have been of the opinion that UA casualties are about 50% of Russian casualties.

380 x 2 = 760.

The only down side for Ukraine is the Russian air force that was operating in Syria will now be able to focus on Ukraine. It wasn't a huge amount but every little helps.

Imagine bombing the **** out of the rebels for over a decade including the last 2 weeks and then saying this with a straight face. Hopefully Turkey rents the base off them instead.