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www.foreignaffairs.com The Obstacles to Diplomacy in Ukraine Russia’s extreme demands—and Ukraine’s desire to survive—make negotiations unlikely. 🇺🇦❗️Zelensky:
There were reports from Khmara and Drapaty. Unfortunately, our units have been recording significant failures in the operation of Starshield over the territory of Ukraine for several days: along the entire front line and in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine.
Starshield system speed limits are in effect at 161 kilometers per hour. The Ukrainian military has already checked the circumstances of this, and these are not random errors, but a system speed limit.
For us, this is primarily a significant complication of intercepting Russian jet drones. Unfortunately, there are already hits due to the fact that the means of shooting down do not develop sufficient speed and do not have time to intercept.
Unfortunately, this helps the Russians kill more Ukrainians and deliver more accurate strikes on Ukraine. We are trying to clarify all the circumstances with the American side.View quoted post on X
Moscow has now spelled it out. Alexey Drobinin, a senior Russian Foreign Ministry official, said that Russia could conclude nonaggression pacts with individual NATO member states and offer them “additional individual security guarantees.” At the same time, Russia’s chief negotiator Vladimir Medinsky called a new European security framework the central topic of the talks in Abu Dhabi.
Moscow put its December 2021 demands back on the table.
Europe opened this door itself. By agreeing to discuss a new “security architecture” with Moscow, it agreed to negotiate the non-negotiable: its own collective defence. The Kremlin’s answer is to deal with each European country alone, face to face with Russia.
Every European country that faces Russia one-on-one will lose. Inevitably. This applies to the nuclear powers too: neither Britain nor France can stand alone against Russia’s pressure. Europe can stand only united, only together. Countries that pursue individual pacts with Moscow will end up as Russian satellites.
Time to Win the War describes where this leads:
“Collective defence would give way to individual attempts at survival. Every government that tried to secure itself separately would make Article 5 less credible for everyone else, which in turn would push more governments towards separate arrangements with Moscow or Beijing. European defence could collapse politically without Russia having to defeat NATO forces on the battlefield.”
An “individual security guarantee” from Moscow is worth exactly as much as the one Russia gave Ukraine in Budapest in 1994. Any European government tempted by such an offer should remember how that ended.
Link in the first comment.View quoted post on X
⚡️BREAKING: The US believes Ukrainians must withdraw from their own territory to end the war
Washington is proposing that Ukraine give up Donbas, Volodymyr Zelensky said.
According to him, the American side keeps raising the issue and sees territorial concessions as a way to end the war.
“You cannot talk to us like that,” Zelensky bluntly responds to these proposals.View quoted post on X
Europe chose my former boss Volodymyr Zelenskyy its face of democracy. Low-educated, rude, blackmailing, self-obsessed personality that filled Ukraine with violence, human rights violation, and political persecutions.View quoted post on X
Six years ago, I was teaching this person what media is and what and in what way to tell them. Today, I am politically persecuted by Zelenskyy.
When I was up to have a speech in the European Parliament, Zelenskyy introduced sanctions for ten years against me. And the European Parliament without explanation took my badge away and banned my entrance. The day before my speech in German Bundestag just this month, Zelenskyy pressed his law enforcement to start treason charges against me.
If I lose the court, I will face from 15 years in prison to life sentence. Apparently, this is the punishment for one my interview. From 15 years in prison to life sentence for one interview – this is democracy of Zelenskyy, a face of Europe’s democracy we are told…
