Zelenskyy is prohibited by his own Constitution from agreeing to concession of lands to Russia. Does Trump understand that?
It MIGHT be possible to get a cease fire, but, as we see from Pooty tools here in this thread, elements in Russia do not want any such cease fire, and there is at present no freaking way to enforce one anyway. That last is particularly true since Russia won’t agree to a force in Ukraine that the Ukies could possibly agree to, to enforce a cease fire.
So, despite Trump’s efforts, the war will go on, with a good part of Russia’s effort directed once again at Ukrainian energy supplies, particularly their electrical grid, and Ukraine smacking Russian refineries.
Russia would on the face of it seem to have the advantage. However, Ukraine has nearly 4 years’ experience in absorbing hits on their grid — which attacks violate the Geneva Conventions, in case anyone cares, and more important, in that time has developed a very well dispersed and diffuse backup consisting of hundreds of thousands of small generators. These are fueled by an equally diffuse network supplying fuel to the generators from sources Pooty can’t hit: Bordering NATO countries. There is also some local energy sourcing from solar panels, biofuels, etc.
This energy sourcing is of course not EFFICIENT, but with the West easily footing most of the bill (also with help from Japan, etc.), efficiency is not a major concern.
This is highly problematic for Russia: Even using relatively cheap drones, it is not economically practical to take out hundreds of thousands of small generators and that diffuse supply network. Never mind that if Russia tries anyway, they’ll likely kill 10’s if not 100’s of thousands of Ukie civilians in the process. What a propaganda nightmare that would be.
Meantime, Ukraine continues its ramping up of successful attacks on Russia’s energy system, particularly its refineries. Russia is highly dependent on those refineries, while Ukraine gets by without any working refineries at all. Therein lies Ukraine’s advantage.
Looks like Little Zelya doesn’t get “his” TomatoHawks because of the risk of depletion of US weapons inventories. 😉😂😂