Breitbart By Oliver JJ Lane
Despite months of talks, both Russia and Ukraine appear to have barely shifted from their initial negotiation positions, with Moscow demanding huge concessions from Kyiv while calling their opponents “delusional” for not taking up the offer.
The second attempt at face-to-face Russia-Ukraine talks on Monday ended much the same as the first, three weeks before, which concluded with little progress towards peace, but a prisoner-swap agreement was reached.
The lead-up to this week’s talks had been dominated by speculation over what Russia’s demands would be, given that they had refused to publish them ahead of time, as Ukraine had done with theirs. Yet now they are out in the open, it remains clear that peace talks appear to be going nowhere fast, and the two sides are coming to the table with asymmetric ideas of how to achieve a ceasefire and what that would look like…
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