Posted on 08/17/2024 7:40:29 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
KYIV — 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.
The willingness to engage in the talks signaled something of a shift for both countries, at least for a limited cease-fire. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Kyiv would consider a full cease-fire only if Russia first withdrew all of its troops from Ukrainian land, including the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia invaded and annexed in 2014. Russia’s Vladimir Putin has demanded that Ukraine first cede four Ukrainian regions — including some territory that Russian forces aren’t occupying — that the Kremlin has declared as part of Russia.
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The Brit papers would suggest the Uses are winning.
We have to keep this war going until the whole world is on fire....
Meanwhile:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKg7ed5eLC8
DISASTER💥5 PATRIOT Launchers, 1 IRIS-T And SU-24 Destroyed By Iskanders🔥 Military Summary 2024.08.17
With geo located video footage…..when do we stop flushing our taxpayer’s money and weapons down the filthy Ukie toilet?
Never gonna happen pal. Unless maybe if Ukraine reinstates it's former legally elected president Yanukovych and pledges to never join NATO.
Russia has announced the option for negotiations is gone.
The outcome will be decided on the battlefield.
The outcome will be decided when the nukes start flying.
There will be no winners in a global nuclear war.
Z is a dumbass.
It will be interesting to see what the Russian retaliation is for this terrorist attack.
This globalist proxy war on russia needs to end.
You are 100% correct. 👍
However, zeepers don’t tolerate opposite opinions and will be all over your post shortly.
Zeepers never admit it is a proxy war.
They pretend that history began on the day evil Putin invaded innocent Ukraine/NATO, and that nothing came before.
Compared to Putin, Mussolini is innocent. Putin is the most murderous dictator since Pol Pot. You must be completely naive if you think the people of the Donbas started the FAKE separatist movement. Do you support Hamas? Putin does. Do you love North Korea? Putin does. Do you like 15 year prison sentences for those who practice free speech? Putin does! The boy-kisser Putin murders ALL his political opposition.
You're not even bright enough to recognize the irony/hypocrisy of your statement, are ya?
Free speech speaking up for a Ukrainian charity does not amount to serious political opponents to Putin. .. except maybe in Putin’s perverted mind.
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