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Posted on 06/07/2026 5:10:34 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Vladimir Putin has rejected an offer from Volodymyr Zelenskyy to hold a face-to-face meeting, insisting instead that Russia will achieve its war goals in Ukraine, including seizing all of the eastern Donbas region.
Speaking at the St Petersburg economic forum, the Russian president described the open letter from his Ukrainian counterpart containing the offer as rude. He refused to use Zelenskyy’s name, referring to him only as its author. Asked if they could meet to discuss an end to the conflict, Putin replied: “So far I see no point.”
Zelenskyy’s letter, which was published on Thursday, proposed a meeting in a third country such as Switzerland or Turkey. It said diplomacy should start from the current frontline and that Ukraine was ready for a full ceasefire while negotiations took place.
The letter also alluded to Russia’s recent military setbacks and the growing fuel shortages in Crimea caused by Ukrainian attacks on crucial supply routes. Hours before the forum opened on Wednesday, Ukrainian drones hit St Petersburg’s oil terminal, sending black smoke billowing into the sky.
Putin shrugged off the embarrassing strikes on his home city and said his territorial demands were unchanged. He said Russia controlled all of the Luhansk region – a claim Kyiv denies – and more than 85% of Donetsk region. He repeated his demand that Ukraine also give up all of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions.
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Zelenskyy said Putin’s rejection showed the Kremlin had no wish to end the conflict. “Unfortunately, the Russian side is once again choosing war. Everyone heard the response. A weak response,” he said in his nightly video address. “I think this response will have disappointed many in the world.”
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“There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.”
-Sun Tzu
How come you guys aren’t posting any Platner stories?
Peace=surrender that is what pitin calls peace
More and more I see that history is rhyming when it comes to pitin’s Russia and nazi Germany
Russian military efforts probably result in more Russian soldiers dying than pro-Russian folks brought under Russian territorial control.
The talk of ceasefire might have made Putin say nyet.
https://youtu.be/I_i659-nXmQ
Military Summary Channel - Facts on the ground.
More Russian gains on the ground. As usual.
“There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.”
Industrial production soared in the USA in WW2 and stayed high for decades.
The Soviet Union became a superpower, at a far greater cost.
Ukraine will have a world class weapons industry when the war ends. However, the cost of the war for Ukraine is high.
Belarus-based nonsense.
The gains are small and come at a great cost to Russian soldiers.
Ukraine already has the world class weapons that are in fact systematically being used at present to destroy the Russian economy and means to wage war
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA1Qz-FMl4c
Why aren’t you? Instead of spamming threads with non germane spam why don’t you create the threads you want to see? Lazy or something?
“There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.”
-Sun Tzu
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Communist China, Vietnam, and Afghanistan would beg to differ.
Not only that but the man who likes to talk about denazification is nazifying Russia more and more each day
Control of media, secret police, control of industry, censorship, terror tactics on own citizens, slave labor, wealthy few
Don’t believe your lying eyes….
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