Ukraine and Russia

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Re: Ukraine and Russia

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Well, they arrived, they had there several hours together, they said nothing to the press, no doubt they came to an understanding on where things would go next.

Nothing was documented for the public, no questions were allowed from reporters, polite comments were made by both parties. I'm almost impressed they can have given so little out. That was almost Presidential, we've never seen that before. One term and two hundred days and President Trump finally gets a day right.

Here we are:
As Putin spoke, Trump stood in silence. It was several minutes before the Russian president mentioned what he called the "situation in Ukraine" – ostensibly the catalyst for the summit. When he did, it was to state that although an unspecified "agreement" had been reached, the "root causes" of the conflict had to be eliminated before peace could be achieved.

The phrase will have set off alarm bells in Kyiv and beyond. Since the start of the war it has become shorthand for a series of intractable and maximalist demands that Putin says stand in the way of a ceasefire.

They include recognition of Russian sovereignty over the Ukrainian regions of Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson as well as Ukraine agreeing to demilitarisation, neutrality, no foreign military involvement and new elections. Essentially, they amount to capitulation – unacceptable to Kyiv, but clearly – even after three-and-a-half years of bloody conflict – still paramount to Moscow.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gj9er0x0zo
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