Putin was not going to end the war in 2022. As Russia was preparing to capture Ukraine

While negotiations were in Istanbul, Russian troops were preparing to leave the northern part of Ukraine to move to the Donbas and continue to fight there. Russia at Istanbul negotiations represented the clown of Medinsky, which in itself testifies to their frivolousness. After this meeting, Medinsky could not call Putin to tell you how everything went, because Putin was gone . . . And these "negotiations". They were just a ritual effect.

If our side did not interrupt the negotiations after Bucha, they could at least pass. The pieces of 50 memoranda would have been signed by this point, it would not affect the course of war. In February 2022, Putin aimed to capture the whole of Ukraine. These inadequate plans were the consequence of his personal reconciliation and cretic distortion of the picture of the world. And this rate has not gone anywhere.

In March 2022, it became clear that this plan could not be implemented, so the level of encroachment decreased. I wrote about it more than once, in particular in a post called "Four Wars of Vladimir Putin", I will not be repeated. Putin will not go to any real negotiations until he recognizes his position dominant, and the Ukrainian side will agree. Or vice versa - when the Russian army is faced with the threat of defeat. Neither one nor the other is visible.

Therefore, the "Third War" is still ongoing - the war for the south and the Donbas. Putin hopes to move, pass, wait when the moral spirit of Ukrainians falls when Trump wins in the United States when even more orbans are being elected in Europe when Ukraine's help is paralyzed. This is the whole essence of the moment. Ukraine for Putin - as "My Gold" for Holleum, just so he will not give it up. Only if it is good to record it. And at least a year we have it.