Almost a year ago, the Russian-Ukrainian war started by Putin as a special operation could have ended in peace long ago
If at the negotiations in Minsk last spring Moscow would have shown compliance and compromise to Zelensky’s position.
If only then the schizophrenic demands for denazification had been lifted, if the Russian leadership had been satisfied with the achieved results of the first stage of the war.
After all, the first signs that the war did not go according to plan were heard even when the Russian troops received stubborn resistance near Kyiv, when their advance to Nikolaev and Odessa, Zaporozhye and Kharkov was slowed down.
However, the lack of feedback, a distorted view of the course of the Russian-Ukrainian war, miscalculations in assessing the positions of the West led to the fact that the war began to take on an increasingly viscous positional character.
After the flight from the Kharkiv region, even the blind and deaf became clear that the so-called. NVO has long grown into a full-fledged Russian-Ukrainian war with uncertain prospects for the Russian Federation
It was a great moment to conclude a truce or even peace on terms more favorable to Russia than to Ukraine.
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