Might be Putins reached his objections since the negotiations are continuing to move along as well.
Keivs not in the greatest place but perhaps he’s not going to upend it as he has other cities. Probably still wants some form of Government in a working city.
There is more going on at FSB and GRU at CIS military HQ in Moscow than most are aware.
And Ukraine has been working to be independent from Moscow much longer than what western society is aware, “bigley” 😎.
Have spent time there, and several other places along the Dnieper (and East and West), all the way to Odessa, on the Черное море (Chyorni Morye), right to the last stone territorial wall built by the Roman’s, going down to the sea.
First however, as anyone can see, by geo location, and by road and river, Kiev was relatively short and easy for subordinate CIS forces to reach.
However, the UA population has long been, or generationally acutely aware (from before UA CCP days, AND since 1991 to the present), of the FSB/KGB and GRU constant threat.
One year after Lenin picked Mao to support and lead Communist revolution across what Lenin hoped would be the entirety of China and Southeast Asia (1921), from 1922 to 1991, even with Ukraine CCP and CIS forced government alignment, Ukraine still has likely lost well over 1100 politicians (and or family members) to various forms assassination, not counting WWII, to keep Ukraine subordinate and aligned with Moscow.
Both countries also know Ukraine was the most involved country within the formal CCCP, in the Reagan forced transition from CCCP to CIS. For example, while they paid with their lives, elements of UA CCP and UA KGB secretly “encouraged” the Polish Solidarity movement (from 1980-1989), encouraging/supporting US involvement within Poland, providing small bits of info, to US assets in West Germany, and thereby to the Reagan Administration.
2 Lubyanka, (a couple blocks from the Kremlin), were made acutely aware of this by their poc’s working from Berlin and Dresden East German offices, no later than 1985/1986, (if not before).
UA CCP ultimately wanted freedom, and even after losing 15 million people, was willing to keep trying - enter a young KGB East German Security Chief, and perhaps Gorbachev’s smartest and most trusted agent, Putin. (Not unrelated - Putin was also partially involved in supporting draft’s of Gorbachev’s global “Green Cross” project, which architected “Global Warmimg/Climate Change structure within the UN, and went on to blueprint Rio to Paris Accords, and included UN-A21)
For many reasons, the people in Kiev and Ukraine are generally significantly more conservative, and far more family oriented than their brothers to the North and East.
Both UA Orthodox, and Evangelical churches are much more prevalent and strident across Ukraine, than Russia, CIS, and most of Central and Western Europe.
This is part of the problem, as CIS member states are CIS subordinate, and since the Alma-Ata protocols have supportive/reciprocal finance, banking, trade, resource management, judicial, and security (battlespace) subordination with Moscow.
Untenable —
Furthermore, Moscow has mandated the ROC as the state church, and except for a few denominational show pieces, has a ban (albeit relaxed compared to formal CCCP days) on other denominations (except Islam in its “respected jurisdictions)”.
Worse, neither KGB ROC Patriarch Kirill (Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev), nor his KGB predecessor Alexy II (Alexey Mikhailovich Ridiger), were able to subordinate the UA Orthodox church under Putin’s regime.
And ROC it is a very useful political instrument -
KGB/FSB ROC - what it really is, for those who actually desire to know the truth -
https://www.academia.edu/37152767/The_Mikhailov_Files_Patriarch_Kirill_and_the_KGB
https://fitzinfo.net/2021/09/19/the-kgb-and-the-russian-orthodox-church/amp/
https://www.traditioninaction.org/History/F_009_Kyrill_2.html
https://thenewamerican.com/putin-defender-of-christian-faith-and-morality/
Putin Rewrites Church History to Justify Taking Ukraine
And Putin has successfully tied the ROC to a former KGB Marxist 1960’s priest named *Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Now Pope Francis) of the RCC and to the World Counsel of Churches (leftist WCC) -
http://www.analysis-review.com/catholic-pope-kgb-patriarch-get-together/
https://traditioninaction.org/RevolutionPhotos/A956-Sch.htm
https://www.catholicamericanthinker.com/Red-Pope.html
https://www.aim.org/aim-column/pope-francis-jihad-and-moscows-espionage-church/
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/liberation-theology-activist-pope-francis-is-one-of-us
https://www.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/i99ht_104_Kirill.html
https://watchingamerica.com/WA/2018/01/14/pope-francis-and-putin-2018s-unspoken-partnership/
https://newspunch.com/wikileaks-soros-vatican-coup/
And it tied also tied to yours truly Klaus Schwab -
And Pope Francis was indeed at “Ground Zero” of the KGB’s development and effort to spread “Liberation theology” and “Social Justice” not only within the Roman Catholic Church, but through the World Council of Churches, and was part of the plan to neutralize the churches, and to spread societal division, and to create sexual perversion throughout Western societies.
We were warned of this very real plan and effort by defectors Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Sergei Kordikov (assassinated in California), Yuri Bezmenov, and several others.
Yuri Bezmenov (abridged/short) -
In a nutshell, Ukraine is really not on board, and can only be crushed Moscow is to be successful.