Russian President Putin thinks he’s got the West on the ropes about the Ukraine….
He thinks there is no reason to seek a ceasefire agreement with Ukraine President Zelensky , whi has most of his country seeking to return to ‘norma’ and rebuilkdingb their lives, while 20% of his country , is being overrun by brutal Russian forces….
Puitn also knows that despite all the noise?
(Putin is locking up those who protest his effirt to swallow up the Ukraine…)
He’s still getting paid for oil and natural gas exports….
And he’s stealing as much wheat as his people can right now….
The Russian military is doing better on it’s second campaign….
As Western waepons still are not nearly enough for the effort to counter the Russians so far…
This REussina effort in the SouthEastern Ukraine were there are no large urban cities that the Ukraianan’s fight better in….
There strategy is to level everything in their path against a Ukraine force that simply does not have the same level of fire power….
Despite the ‘Bravdo’?
Zelensky WILL have to give up territory to achieve a ceasefire…
They will just have to wait…
Here’s what else to know
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It appears that China is lending moral support to fellow Communist Putin…
But that’s all…
Russian officials have raised increasingly frustrated requests for greater support during discussions with Beijing in recent weeks, calling on China to live up to its affirmation of a “no limits” partnership made weeks before the war in Ukraine began. But China’s leadership wants to expand assistance for Russia without running afoul of Western sanctions and has set limits on what it will do, according to Chinese and U.S. officials….