Propaganda. Russia is grinding the Uke forces.
Russia has no interest in Kiev, they won’t waste munitions there. Kiev is very valuable to Ukraine, so a large part of their army on pinned there.
Mariupol is being taken block by block. While there are civilian casualties, they are small compared to casualties in the Balkan wars, Serbia and any of the middle east wars.
Peace talks are making progress. Putin will get the eastern provinces, Ukrainian neutrality, and maybe a land bridge to Crimea.
‘Putin will get the eastern provinces, Ukrainian neutrality, and maybe a land bridge to Crimea.’
I expect exactly that to happen...
No interest in Kiev?
Ok Bagdahd Bob...
Gee why then the expendenture of men and material trying to encircle it?
You're completely ridiculous. Russia flew in troops to take Kyiv's airport. They were eliminated. Then they sent a three mile long military convoy towards Kyiv that stalled. All because "Russia has no interest in Kyiv". Stop posting nonsense.
You can’t reason with these crazed neocons. Of course, they would never know what Putin is doing in Kiev. The truth rarely gets shoveled into their media masters’ feeding trough.
“The Russian delegation in Istanbul has received from their Ukrainian counterparts a “clearly phrased position,” Medinsky said. Kiev’s proposals, he said, will be studied in the near future and reported to the president, and then Moscow will come back with a response.
In addition, the official said, Russia is making two de-escalation steps, in the political and military areas. The first step is that Russia is offering Kiev to move forward the possible meeting between the countries’ leaders. While initially Putin and Zelensky were supposed to meet after their Foreign Ministries initial a peace treaty, now these two events are proposed to be held simultaneously.
The second step was announced by Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin. “As the talks <…> are moving on to the practical terms, the Russian Defense Ministry <…> has decided to drastically <…> reduce military activity toward Kiev and Chernigov,” he said.”
The neocons are so hopped on the Russia, Russia, Russia 2.0 disinformation, it will take an ocean of it to satisfy their bloodlust.