THIS WAS A BAD IDEA. LETS DESTROY RUZZIA INSTEAD.
“Ukraine’s offensive derails secret efforts for partial cease-fire with Russia, officials say”
“The warring countries were set to hold indirect talks in Qatar on an agreement to halt strikes on energy and power infrastructure, according to officials.”
“Ukraine and Russia were set to send delegations to Doha this month to negotiate a landmark agreement halting strikes on energy and power infrastructure on both sides, diplomats and officials familiar with the discussions said, in what would have amounted to a partial cease-fire and offered a reprieve for both countries.
But the indirect talks, with the Qataris serving as mediators and meeting separately with the Ukrainian and Russian delegations, were derailed by Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Russia’s western Kursk region last week, according to the officials. The possible agreement and planned summit have not been previously reported.
For more than a year, Russia has pounded Ukraine’s power grid with a barrage of cruise missiles and drone strikes, causing irreparable damage to power stations and rolling blackouts across the country. Meanwhile, Ukraine has struck Russia’s oil facilities with long-range drone attacks that have set ablaze refineries, depots and reservoirs, reducing Moscow’s oil refining by an estimated 15 percent and raising gas prices around the world.
Some involved in the negotiations hoped they could lead to a more comprehensive agreement to end the war, according to the officials who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive diplomacy.”
Nice. Very Nice.
“Crazy footage shows a brilliantly planned evacuation of Ukrainian fighters and destruction of the enemy in Pokrovsk direction. The Russians came very close, but after accurate hits by artillery, the crew of the 47th Brigade’s Bradley IFV saved the lives of the soldiers by firing at the tree line.”
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1824745706105553355
How dare Ukraine fight back!
Russian territory would have been a bargaining chip in negotiations. Ukraine would have insisted on significant concessions in return for withdrawing from captured Russian territory. This shows that Russia wasn't serious about negotiating, and just wanted to impose their terms.