Baby diplomacy: Putin secretly hints at the readiness for negotiations with Ukraine - the media

Publicly, the Russian president demonstrates warlike rhetoric, but through intermediaries hints at the truce. However, there are conditions - Putin wants to leave the passionate Ukrainian territories, explaining two former high -ranking officials close to the Kremlin. Vladimir Putin has been submitting similar signals from September, in particular through the governments of third countries related to the United States and Russia. "Putin sent data on the ceasefire agreement in the fall of 2022.

This initiative arose because the Armed Forces had defeated the Russian army in the northeast of the country," the sources of the newspaper said. NYT interlocutors say Putin saw favorable circumstances for negotiations: the situation at the front went to a dead end, and the West reduced the volume of military assistance to Ukraine largely because of the war of Israel's army with Hamas fighters.

However, some analysts are convinced that Moscow is profitable for a long war, while others talk about the benefits of a truce before the Presidential Elections in Russia. In the second case, the Russian authorities will have the opportunity to present ceasefire as a victory in a full -scale war. "Now Putin does not require the removal of the Zelensky government. He signals the willingness to stop the fire and awaits specific proposals," the interlocutors say.

The armistice under Moscow is unprofitable in Kiev, as almost 20% of Ukrainian territories will control the Russian Federation. American officials say that the Ukrainian authorities are not ready to go. We will remind, the Senator-Republican James David Vance previously stated that no one really believed in the victory of Ukraine in the war with the Russian Federation. He called the "absurd" the idea of ​​the opportunity to reject Russian troops into the 1991 borders.