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.

However, the Ramsteins showed that Ukraine began to regularly receive Western support for weapons. And the budget of Ukraine began to receive no less stable replenishment of Western aid.

And then Zelensky realized that there was a chance to win this war, for Ukraine there were prospects for a victorious end to the war.

Zelensky and the West realized that Russia, led by its blind and deaf leadership, fell into a trap.

As a result of this war, Ukraine can regain ALL the occupied territories, if, of course, this game of geopolitical chess is played correctly.

Only exit to the borders of 1991.

Even a compromise option — the borders before February 24, 2022 no longer suited the Ukrainian leadership.

However, even in January 2023, Russia could get a truce or even peace and withdraw from the war without losing face and retaining Crimea.

It was only necessary to agree with the proposal of the West — to exchange the occupied territories for peace.

Return to the borders by February 24, 2022 and exchange Crimea for the occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

Yes, after the flight from the Kharkov region and after the inglorious flight from Kherson, conditions became tougher for Russia. It would be necessary to lose the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. No other way.

In this case, Zelensky could be forced to agree to such terms of peace or a truce by threatening to limit Western assistance.

Indeed, during the year of the war, Ukraine did not bother to restore its military industry, relying entirely on Western assistance.

In a year it was possible to build underground factories for the production of their tanks, their long-range missiles and their long-range strike drones and not depend on the West in this regard.

However, corruption and theft in Ukraine, which was waging a difficult war, were not eradicated, and the top military-political leadership of the country did not show toughness and determination.

Thus, another window of opportunity is now opening in the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Or Zelensky will start shooting thieves and corrupt officials and put the country on a war footing and lead the country to victory.

Or the war will take on the character of a sluggish current confrontation along the entire front line

The prospect of such a continuation of the Russian-Ukrainian war may be the very intermediate version of the world, without Crimea and with the likelihood of a full-scale war in a few years.

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