Whether the Right was the General: The US speaks of the lost opportunity to complete the war with negotiations - the media

On the other hand, no one in Washington believes that the counter -offensive of Ukrainian troops is a mistake, and President Joe Biden has made it clear that the decision to settle the war will be decided in Kiev. The way in Washington refers to the prospect of peace talks with the Russian Federation is referred to in Politico.

The authors of the publication point out that none of US officials consider General Millie a prophet, but now they say that he was right when he considered the possibility of negotiations of Kiev and Moscow last winter. Such moods appeared against the background of events on the front, where the promotion of defense forces is not as rapid as expected.

The situation was warmed up by Mark Millie's statement in an interview with The Washington Post, where he said that if the ultimate goal of the war is a free, independent and sovereign Ukraine, "a lot of effort will be needed. " "It will take a lot of time, but you can also achieve these goals, perhaps with some diplomatic means," he said. The material also gave the words of one official who agreed with the general's opinion.

According to him, the White House seems to miss the moment when negotiations could be started earlier. Although it added that few people believe that Moscow is seriously negotiating from the very beginning of the war. Another American official asks for his part not to forget about the political situation, as Baiden's administration would have a flurry of crying for forcing Kiev to sit at the table at the negotiating table before the counter -offensive.

At the same time, he stressed that no matter how slow the progress of the Ukrainian forces in the counter -offensive is still better than alternatives. The Kremlin also spoke about the possibility of negotiations. In particular, on August 19, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation said that he did not see the prospects for negotiations between Kiev and Moscow.

According to him, all the calls of the event for this are a certain tactical technique in order to give "exhausted Ukrainian troops a break and the opportunity to regroup. " "Unfortunately, the prospects for negotiations between Russia and the West are not visible. In addition, the Western sponsors are constantly pushing the Kiev regime to raise rates. And the hypocritical calls of Westerners for negotiations are regarded as a tactical reception," Lavrov said.

The head of Russian diplomacy also criticized the formula of President Vladimir Zelensky's peace, calling it "the oppression of our fundamental interests in the sphere of security and the continuation of arbitrariness in relation to Russians and Russian -speaking people in new territories and in the lands controlled by the Armed Forces. " Earlier it was reported that the representative of the GRU of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Andriy Yusov told about the deadline for the end of the war.