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  • Ukraine is at great risk of its front lines collapsing

    04/04/2024 11:48:22 AM PDT · by Kazan · 51 replies
    Politico ^ | APRIL 3, 2024 | JAMIE DETTMER
    KYIV — Wayward entrepreneur Elon Musk’s latest pronouncements regarding the war in Ukraine set teeth on edge, as he warned that even though Moscow has “no chance” of conquering all of Ukraine, “the longer the war goes on, the more territory Russia will gain until they hit the Dnipro, which is tough to overcome.”“However, if the war lasts long enough, Odesa will fall too,” he cautioned.With a history of urging Ukraine to agree to territorial concessions — and his opposition to the $60 billion U.S. military aid package snarled on Capitol Hill amid partisan wrangling — Musk isn’t Ukraine’s favorite...
  • Russia says Ukraine ceasefire now would not achieve Moscow's goals

    03/31/2023 8:18:07 AM PDT · by Timber Rattler · 16 replies
    Reuters ^ | March 31, 2023 | Staff Report
    Russia said on Friday that a ceasefire in Ukraine would not enable it to achieve the goals of its "special military operation" at the moment. The Kremlin was reacting after Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko - Russia's closest ally - called for an immediate ceasefire, without preconditions, and for both Moscow and Kyiv to start negotiations on a lasting peace settlement. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Russia had noted Lukashenko's comments and that President Vladimir Putin would discuss it with him next week. But he said Russia's goals in Ukraine could not be achieved at the moment through a halt...
  • How Putin blundered into Ukraine — then doubled down

    02/23/2023 6:25:00 AM PST · by Timber Rattler · 33 replies
    The Financial Times ^ | February 23, 2023 | Max Seddon, Christopher Miller, and Felicia Schwartz
    At about 1am on February 24 last year, Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, received a troubling phone call. After spending months building up a more than 100,000-strong invasion force on the border with Ukraine, Vladimir Putin had given the go-ahead to invade. The decision caught Lavrov completely by surprise. Just days earlier, the Russian president had polled his security council for their opinions on recognizing two separatist statelets in the Donbas, an industrial border region in Ukraine, at an excruciatingly awkward televised session — but had left them none the wiser about his true intentions. (snip) Later that day, several...