Hectic leaves Russia confident in two weeks

This at 2:30.

I walk alone in the large places where the Kremlin walls are running and failing.

I approach a checkpoint, and show my passport.

“Netly Vyxoda!” (“No performance!”) Answers the guard. Points in the opposite direction.

I’m back and eventually come to another checkpoint.

“There is no way out!” Sentry says.

I lost. Inside the kremlin. In the dead of the night.

This is like being in John Le Carré’s novel.

It’s been a tonight. I arrived at 5 o’clock. In addition to a small group of journalists, “An event with President Putin” was invited. Which event? Would not say to start the Kremlin. Finally, Vladimir Putin will receive questions.

Eight hours later, the president entered the Malachite hall of the Great Kremlin Palace and sat on the table.

But there was a plan change. There is no press conference. There is no question. Instead, live on Russian TV, Putin made a statement that Russia and Ukraine proposed direct talks in Istanbul.

In the event, I go out of the Kremlin Palace, but I take a wrong turn. Finally, I get the right speech and a visible eye, a taxi house.

This was the beginning of those who appeared to be a true rollercoaster of two weeks. A late night’s start of the night Kremlin continued with peace talks in Turkey, and then continued with a two-hour telephone conversation between Putin and Donald Trump.

However, are we approaching peace in Ukraine in the end?

It doesn’t feel like this.

Although there are more negotiations and a “memorandum” on “a possible future” “memorandum”, they are all vague.

So far, the battle continues.

Russia still refuses to register unconditionally in the ceasefire ceasefire. This does not intend to return any of the allegations he seized, occupied and annexed. Instead: pushes more.

Currently, the Ukrainian peace process is similar to the loss of the late Kremlin.

It’s hard to see the output.

The last two weeks revealed a lot.

The first neutralizes Russia’s potential threats and pressure points.

The Kremlin’s critics would put in this other way: how much time is Russia plays.

On May 10 (I lost a few hours ago), after a telephone conversation with Donald Trump, European leaders have given President Putin Ultimatum: Agree to the unconditional ceasefire or new sanctions in Ukraine.

Since March, the Trump leadership calls for Russia and Ukraine to adopt a 30-day ceasefire. Kyiv agreed. There is no Moscow.

The Kremlin leader set the European Ultimatum on the opposite proposal of direct talks in Turkey. The idea was met with skepticism in Ukraine and Europe. However, it was enough to destroy Trump and believe that Russia believed in peace. All were for negotiations. New sanctions on “crushing” have been postponed.

At the Istanbul meeting on May 16, President Trump, Vladimir Putin gave to the impression. The Kremlin leader did not send a relatively low-level staff who rejected the idea of ​​a long-term ceasefire. However, the modest results of the talks were sufficient to convince the US President’s progress.

Then Trump-Putin phone call came on May 19.

By the end, Russia has not yet agreed to suspend comprehensive comprehensive military operations. Instead, President Trump, “Russia and Ukraine will immediately begin negotiations towards the ceasefire, and more importantly, the end of the war.”

However, Moscow is already doubting that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a future peace agreement. For a year now, the Russian government has been trying to support Ukraine’s president since the end of the presidency. However, the Constitution of Ukraine prohibits the elections in the war.

The cause of the war law in Ukraine is occupied by Russia.

“Will Russia sit and sign a peace agreement with President Zelensky?” I asked Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday.

“If you put the basket in front of the horse,” Mr. Lavrov replied. “We need to be agreed at first. We will decide when the President Putin has repeatedly says President Zelenski … Probably the best choice would be new elections …”

The Russian media has ended that Moscow strengthened his hand after two-week diplomacy.

“Russia has won the last round of world poker,” he announced the Izvesty newspaper last week.

“Donald Trump’s position cannot be more profitable for Moscow,” he said. “In the influence, he supported Russia’s position in” first, the ceasefire “and refused to strengthen sanctions against Russia.”

One social scientist, “Donald Trump, who has not been to this for now, is our ideological partner on certain issues. The images are closer to Russia than in Europe.”

And Ultra Pro-Kremlin Komsomolskaya Pravda made this message for European leaders:

“You warned you. Do not wave the gifts and ultimatums in front of the month. Do not try to apply the conditions in negotiations with nothing.

“Sit in lobby only and breathe the smell of the new world order.”

Moscow’s trust in Ukraine, it burns with the belief that initiates the battlefield.

In 2023, Donald Trump, if the presidency wins, “We will do terrible war between Russia and Ukraine …

Trump has been in the oval office for more than fourteen months, but the “terrible war” continues.

Rarely, he explicitly rebuke the cream and threatened to subsequent sanctions. He said last month, “…” “…” “You” did not have any reason for the residents of missiles, civilian territory, cities and cities. He does not want to stop the war, and ‘banking’ or ‘should be solved in a different way through secondary sanctions

But there was no follow-up. The US president has restarted US-Russian relations that instead of signaling to Moscow, not want to cancel the pressure of the Kremlin.

After the presidents’ telephone conversation, Putin’s foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov, spoke to reporters: “TRUC (bilateral) speaks very emotionally emotionally about the prospects of relations.”

President Trump seems determined that everything in Ukraine is approaching Russia.

And Moscow makes it feel.

“President Trump does not continue to continue the US-Russian dialogue in peace in Ukraine,” the Russian government was a title in Rossiyskaya newspaper this week.

This does not mean that the Kremlin will leave with the danger of additional restrictions. If the US Senate is not serious about Moscow diplomacy, Russia has threatened to strict new sanctions against Russia.

To this point, the Kremlin managed to prevent or release any pressure on the war in the Ukrainian war.

It seems confident that it will continue for it.