Vladimir Putin sells the military operation as a peace mission to his own people.
(Photo: imago images/SNA)
Moscow There are increasing signs that the Kremlin’s plans to invade Ukraine are not going as planned. Instead of completing the attack within a few days, the situation for the Russian troops dragged on.
And then there are the massive sanctions that are taking threatening forms for the country’s economy. A Kremlin spokesman admitted on Monday that the sanctions had unexpectedly brought his country into a “new economic reality”.
Probably because of these difficulties, among other things, Moscow was now willing to negotiate without preconditions. And so on Monday two delegations from Russia and Ukraine spoke to each other at the Ukrainian-Belarusian border. After five hours, both sides agreed to meet again “in the coming days”.
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