Words from the Russian Foreign Minister and Russian Presidential Aide and former Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev ARE that their boss, Russian President Putin does NOT want what Donald Trump thinks he wants…..
Putin wants the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, while keep Crimea ….
He probably also wants Trump to get Ukraine to give him BACK the Kursk rewgion. of Russia, while he keeps the Ukraine gains….
Furthermore?
Putin has scared the American’s into agreeing to NOT let Ukraine into NATO FOREVER…..
Thus leaving a Ukraine that Putin can AGAIN snatch Ukraine BACK….
Piece by piece….
Ah?
Ukraine rained over 200 drone strikes on Russia today as a answer to the above…
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Australia’s government summoned the Russian ambassador over reports a Melbourne man had been killed after being captured by Russia while fighting for Ukraine. Anthony Albanese, Australia’s prime minister, said: “We’ll await the facts to come out. But if there has been any harm caused to Oscar Jenkins, that’s absolutely reprehensible and the Australian government will take the strongest action possible.” Albanese did not rule out the possibility of expelling the Russian ambassador or recalling its envoy in Moscow. Jenkins, a teacher from Melbourne, was captured by Russia last year as a prisoner of war, Australian media reported. A video taken at the time showed him dressed in combat uniform being asked if he was a mercenary.
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Russia’s military on Tuesday said it would retaliate against Ukraine after Kyiv attacked Russian regions by firing six US-made Atacms ballistic missiles, six UK-made Storm Shadow cruise missiles and launching one of the biggest drone attacks to date. The Ukrainian general staff said it struck as deep as 1,100km (680 miles) inside Russia, targeting oil storage, refining, chemical and ammunition plants in the Bryansk, Saratov, Tula and Tatarstan regions. Russia’s defence ministry claimed it had shot down all of the western missiles fired by Ukraine at the Bryansk region, as well as 146 drones outside the war zone. It said two more Storm Shadows had been shot down over the Black Sea. There was no independent verification.
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Russia’s foreign minister said Moscow was open for talks with the US president-elect, Donald Trump, and praised him for pointing to Nato’s plan to embrace Ukraine as a root cause of the war. Sergei Lavrov said at his annual news conference that any prospective peace talks should involve broader arrangements for security in Europe, and Moscow was open to discussing security guarantees for Kyiv. Trump said a week ago that Russia regarded it as “written in stone” that Ukraine’s membership in Nato should never be allowed, but the Biden administration had sought to expand the military alliance to Russia’s doorstep. Trump echoed Moscow’s rhetoric justifying its “special military operation” in Ukraine launched in February 2022. Lavrov claimed that Nato had “expanded to our borders” in violation of agreements. Nato leaders insist no such agreements have ever been made or put on record. Since 2004, the only Russia-bordering states to join Nato have been Finland and Sweden – both in response to Russia invading Ukraine.
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Russia’s defence ministry claimed its troops took control of two settlements in the Donetsk region on Tuesday: Terny, near the town of Siversk, one of the focal points of Russia’s campaign, and Neskuchne further south. Ukraine’s general staff said nothing about Terny changing hands but mentioned it as one of eight villages that came under attack, and identified Neskuchne as one of five villages where Ukrainian forces had repelled Russian attacks. Reports could not be independently verified. Ukraine’s popular DeepState blog, which uses open-source material to pinpoint the position of Kyiv’s troops, said Russian forces had made gains around Neskuchne.
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A coalmine at the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk halted operations and evacuated staff, the operator said on Tuesday, with advancing Russian troops a few kilometres from its facilities. The mine and the city are at risk of being captured by Russian forces, who are pressing hard to try to seize the strategically important city in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. “Metinvest announces the suspension of operations at Pokrovske Coal due to the evolving frontline conditions, power supply shortages and the deteriorating security situation,” the mine’s owner, steelmaker Metinvest, said in a statement. The site is Ukraine’s last producer of coking coal used to make steel.
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The European Commission intends to propose a ban on imports of Russian primary aluminium in its 16th package of sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, EU diplomats said on Tuesday. The commission held informal meetings with EU countries on Tuesday to discuss details of the forthcoming package, Reuters reported. One source added that the ban would be phased in. In a letter late last year, 10 EU countries proposed further sanctions on Russian trade, including its output of metals such as aluminium. So far the bloc has banned aluminium products including wire, tubes and foil. The United States and Britain banned the import of metals produced in Russia in 2024, but the EU declined to follow suit owing to opposition from some member states.
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The leader of breakaway Moldovan region Transnistria has visited Moscow for talks on resolving its energy crisis, local media reported on Tuesday. Moscow cut off gas to Moldova on 1 January. Transnistria’s main TV channel did not say when Vadim Krasnoselsky visited or give details on who he talked to, but some Moldovan media outlets reported he travelled to Russia on Friday and returned on Tuesday. Transnistria’s de facto government – which has no international recognition from fully fledged states – said last Friday that it was “counting” on Russia to help it overcome the crisis, claiming it had not received concrete offers of support from Moldova or the EU…..
Jan 14, 2025 – ISW Press
The Kremlin remains committed to achieving the original goals of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in any future peace negotiations — namely the destruction of the Ukrainian state, dissolution of the current Ukrainian government, demilitarization of Ukraine, and a permanent ban on Ukraine’s future membership in NATO. Russian Presidential Aide and former Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev rejected the suggestion that Russia could be willing to cede any occupied territory to Ukraine in future negotiations during an interview with Russian outlet Komsomolskaya Pravda published on January 14 and stated that this idea is “not even up for discussion.
Daily Kos grunt Report for Today….
While Trump lied about getting a peace deal “ on his first day in the White House House”( only a blazing idiot would have believed such tripe but hey we are talking about MAGA here)his advisers now concede it will take “ months” ( if ever)to do so.
One person not surprised?
Republican goofball Marjorie Taylor Greene ,” I think you need to understand language.”
Yeah Marg glad we have you here to help us “ understand language.”
Dumbass
The Deal’ WILL begin ON Biden’s watch…..
The current President Joe Biden has had ‘his’ staff actually actively working the deal…..
Trump, who IS a private citizen right now DID make threats the speeded up the deal
A discussion on Ukraine and Russia has no material bearing on a discussion involving Israel and a deal related to Gaza. You seem to be confused as usual.
Trump being a peacenik with the power to end war world wide was one of the more bizarre falsehoods attached to him by Republicans.
Of course once he’s in office and war still goes on the GOP won’t give a damn about world peace.
In fact they’ll probably go back to insisting that war is good for the economy (i.e defense contractors)
Well?
Trump ain’t doing too good with the Putin and the Ukraine war/conflict