Ukraine's ambassador to the US said in an interview that Putin is only pretending to negotiate, while really he's stalling for time because he knows that militarily he's winning.
She said that the Russians can continue the war a lot longer, while Ukraine can't. (This is what I pointed out a while back: in a war of attrition, Russia wins.)
I don't know how much of this kind of news gets through to English-speaking people. Any positive news for the Ukrainian side gets played up in the media, but I suspect that what they report is intentionally unbalanced.
For example, yesterday Ukraine hit a building in Grozny. It appears to have had no military significance, and an empty police station was damaged.
Russia, on the other hand, is sending wave after wave of drones and missiles that target the Ukrainian energy grid. Currently the oil refinery and power plant at Kremenchuk are burning. A week ago about 600,000 people in and around Kiev had no electricity.
One thing that's changed: The New York Times (and other papers that tell us what the powerful people want us to know) is starting to warn us that things are not going well for Ukraine. This is no surprise, obviously, but some people have been in denial.
https://archive.md/F4HkP
She said that the Russians can continue the war a lot longer, while Ukraine can't. (This is what I pointed out a while back: in a war of attrition, Russia wins.)
I don't know how much of this kind of news gets through to English-speaking people. Any positive news for the Ukrainian side gets played up in the media, but I suspect that what they report is intentionally unbalanced.
For example, yesterday Ukraine hit a building in Grozny. It appears to have had no military significance, and an empty police station was damaged.
Russia, on the other hand, is sending wave after wave of drones and missiles that target the Ukrainian energy grid. Currently the oil refinery and power plant at Kremenchuk are burning. A week ago about 600,000 people in and around Kiev had no electricity.
One thing that's changed: The New York Times (and other papers that tell us what the powerful people want us to know) is starting to warn us that things are not going well for Ukraine. This is no surprise, obviously, but some people have been in denial.
https://archive.md/F4HkP
