Posted on 07/19/2025 1:26:27 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that Kyiv has sent Moscow an offer to hold another round of peace talks next week, and that he wanted to speed up negotiations for a cease-fire.
Ukraine and Russia have held two rounds of talks in Istanbul over the past five months.
They have agreed to swap prisoners but made no breakthroughs in ending almost three and a half years of conflict that started with Russia’s 2022 invasion.
“Everything should be done to achieve a cease-fire,” Zelensky said in his evening address to the nation.
“The Russian side should stop hiding from decisions,” he added.
The president said Rustem Umerov, who headed the Ukrainian delegation at both talks in Istanbul, had sent the Russian side the offer to hold the meeting next week, but gave no more details.
Umerov, a former defense minister, was appointed last week as the head of the National Security and Defense Council and tasked with adding more momentum to the negotiations.
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U.S. President Donald Trump, who has sharpened his tone against Russia in recent weeks amid worsening air strikes on Ukrainian cities, threatened harsher sanctions on Russia earlier this month if a peace deal was not reached within 50 days.
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maybe next year
He’s only willing to deal now because Ukraine is on its last legs according to many military analysts. Quit with the killing of all these young men and end this terrible war now.
Zelensky, playing to his 47, knowing full well that Putin has absolutely no interest in negotiations or peace.
BUT as long as the war continues....I'm a pretend President with all the power. See my problem....
Military analysts, like your accurate Douglas Macgregor? I recommend finding someone else
2022: Western weapons will make no difference, Ukraine will collapse by end of summer.
2023: Western weapons will make no difference, Ukraine will collapse by end of summer.
2024: Western weapons will make no difference, Ukraine will collapse by end of summer.
2025:Douglas Macgregor @DougAMacgregor
The weapons we are sending NATO, which are being sent to Ukraine, will not have much if any impact on Russia.
Putin is not willing to negotiate. He wants complete capitulation. What is Zelensky supposed to do?
“Putin wants Odessa first”
I agree. And Putin intends to have what he wants before the winter weather arrives.
LOL, even the Putinista's on this thread admit Putin wants to conquer more of Ukraine.
Its why Trump had enough of Putin's bullshit.
Completely capitulate before he loses even more territory and more of his population. Zelensky needs to call for elections and do whatever the Ukrainian people decide. When you’re reduced to kidnapping people off the streets to fill soldier spots that should be a clue that the people want to end this.
Trump realizes that it's a waste of time to try to talk to Putin. So he's sending more arms to Ukraine.
"Zaluzhnyi is now seen as the most credible successor to Zelensky. I have been told by knowledgeable officials in Washington that that job could be his within a few months.
Zelensky is on a short list for exile, if President Donald Trump decides to make the call. If Zelensky refuses to leave his office, as is most likely, an involved US official told me: “He’s going to go by force."
How timely this gif was. "Bad Dream" become reality.
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I think Putin thinks he’s on the verge of conquering the whole country, which is what he’s always wanted.
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Zelensky offers Russia more peace talks, says he wants to speed up cease-fire negotiations, tlozo wrote: He’s only willing to deal now because Ukraine is on its last legs according to many military analysts Military analysts, like your accurate Douglas Macgregor? I recommend finding someone else
2022: Western weapons will make no difference, Ukraine will collapse by end of summer.
2023: Western weapons will make no difference, Ukraine will collapse by end of summer.
2024: Western weapons will make no difference, Ukraine will collapse by end of summer.
2025:Douglas Macgregor @DougAMacgregor
The weapons we are sending NATO, which are being sent to Ukraine, will not have much if any impact on Russia.
Macgregor and others like him are used to wars in which leaders want to protect the public and preserve their homes, factories and schools. So in that regard, these analysts were correct.
However this is NATO's proxy war and they don't care how many Ukrainians die or cities are destroyed. President Trump has said, "You hear, 'Save the Ukraine'. What's left to save? There are entire cities without a single standing building. That's a 110 year reconstruction effort."
Ukraine has many such destroyed cities. Leaders who care what happens to the country and her people would have stopped fighting to preserve lives and cities. But NATO keeps pushing for more war, Zelensky goes along with NATO because they own him, so the rest of the world has to watch the painful sight of NATO pushing the war right down to the last Ukrainian soldier. Western weapons couldn't turn the outcome of the war - that's what the analysts were saying.
They weren't saying 'Western Weapons won't make the war drag on until Ukraine is out of men and bullets, but that is what will be the outcome.
Watch the Zaluzny guy will fall out of a window of a tall building.
When will you drop your Jihad against President Trump?
So, this must mean zelensky has another surprise drone attack on moscow and throughout russia scheduled for the next few days...
Then, zelensky can launch his attack, and when russia response by pulling out of peace talks, zelensky will claim it’s russia’s fault they won’t negotiate for peace
Just like last time
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