Last I knew (Friday) Putin and Zelensky had met and agreed to ramp up the work of negotiators to implement the Minsk agreement....further troop pullback, de-mining operations and prison exhcanges.
Also Putin had appointed a new point person for Ukraine, who is seen as a less divisive figure than his predecessor. He wouldn’t have done so uness he wanted things to quiet further on the border areas.
“” “” Last I knew (Friday) Putin and Zelensky had met and agreed to ramp up the work of negotiators to implement the Minsk agreement....further troop pullback, de-mining operations and prison exhcanges.”” “”
And that means the escalation is by the Ukrainian Nazis who want to make Putin angry and Ze to look weak.