Ukrainian military on BMPMOSCOW, June 4 The situation in Ukraine is not in favor of Kyiv, therefore, the Ukrainians should start negotiations as soon as possible, said former deputy commander of the US European Command, Lieutenant General Stephen Twitty, speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations. His words are published on the organization's website. «The longer the conflict continues, the weaker Ukraine's position in future negotiations will become. If Kyiv has nothing to offer, then it could lose much more than it planned,» Twitty believes.
«There will be a disaster.» In the United States, they started talking about abandoning Ukraine. He added that the Russian armed forces had «a hell of a lot of combat power» that Kiev did not have. Vladimir Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov emphasized that Russia had clearly voiced its demands on Ukraine, they are well known to Kyiv, but the Ukrainian authorities refuse to negotiate, probably under pressure from the curators, preferring another option to the negotiation process. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a military operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, by the end of March, the Russian army had completed the main tasks of the first stage — it significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The agency called the liberation of Donbass the main goal of the operation.
