Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday hinted that the Ukraine war could soon end. Speaking to reporters after marking Russia’s Victory Day parade, Putin said: “I think that the matter is coming to an end.” The comment was made in response to a question about whether Western help to Ukraine went too far. The Russian leader said: “They started ratcheting up the confrontation with Russia, which continues to this day. I think it is heading to an end, but it’s still a serious matter.”
Putin’s remarks come as Kyiv and Moscow observe a three-day ceasefire in Russia’s war in Ukraine this weekend. The truce was announced on Friday by US President Donald Trump after negotiations brokered by Washington. European Council President Antonio Costa on Thursday said the European Union was prepared to hold separate talks with Russia and Ukraine “when the right moment comes."
As if he’s not in complete control of when it ends.
He is in complete control of it. Conditions are not sufficient for him to end it yet. With the US running out of munitions, losing 16 bases, losing irreplaceable planes and radar systems, and what appears to be the potential for irreplaceable naval losses, the conditions might for him to end the war might be on the horizon.
Putin could order his troops to withdraw from Ukraine tomorrow, yes.
He could do it today!
The USA hasn’t really been supporting Ukraine recently
That’s less relevant than you might think. With the US running out of critical munitions, and the demonstration of smaller powers that they can send the US running, the state of play in global security is on the precipice of major change.
If the US had actually been a direct combatant, that might make sense. But it’s not, so it doesn’t.
This is just how proxy wars go
A change away from the old super powers, the USA and Russia, and towards the new super powers, the EU and China.
Yes, the US is falling but that doesn’t help Russia stay afloat. The US-Iran war may be going massively in Iran’s favor but it also ties up Iran’s military production towards home defense rather than exports to Russia. And Russia will continue spiralling towards irrelevance as it relies more and more on China for its survival. Russians have started viewing China as a possible threat to Russia’s independence.
LOL at the EU being a new superpower. They are nowhere near becoming a superpower and even if they were they wouldn’t be new.
The EU isn’t producing new military tech, they aren’t developing novel doctrine, they can’t produce shells even half as fast as Russia and Russia’s industrial base isn’t exactly healthy.
And the EU is completely fucked on the energy situation.
No. The EU is not a rising superpower. They are a long-dead superpower and their entire defense against global reparations relied on the US being a bully for the rest of the time. Now that the US is failing, Europe’s comeuppance is closer than ever.
Lemmy seems to be full of geopolitical naive people, or else I cannot explain the downvotes.
Don’t forget that Russia has to end the conflict to stock up again. In roughly 2 years there will be a much bigger offensive against the NATO.
You mean you think in 2 years Russia will attempt to invade more of Europe? Even despite all the intelligence agency reports saying that not only is Russia fundamentally incapable of doing that, there’s zero evidence that anyone in Russian military or political leadership is even discussing it, publicly or privately?
Well, if you want to rely on the publicly available sources about that topic, you go ahead. If you want to check yourself, go look at satellite images of the border between Russia and Finland. You’re welcome.
LOL. If I want to rely on the reports released by trained intelligence groups with over half a century of experience analyzing these things, that’s fine, but you think you can make better judgements looking at publicly available satellite photos?
Trump is on Putin’s side.
Russia is scraping the absolute bottom of the barrel for personnel and is hemorrhaging a massive amount of money. Their industry is in the gutter and their already crumbling infrastructure is being attacked by long-range drones flying completely unbothered for thousands of kilometers every day. They have lost pretty much every relevant partner on the international stage. The only realistic way to end this war on Putin’s terms is to pull out from Ukraine and face the Russian population. The other ways are a general mobilization (which will lead to the same result as #1) or waiting for the inevitable collapse (which will, again, lead to the same result as #1). He has painted himself into a corner and there is no way out.
He’s dragging it on for as long as he can but the final result will always be the same.
The states is just one of Ukraine’s supporters though, and Ukraine are doing a decent job of slowly wearing down Russian forces.
The US stopped being a significant supporter of Ukraine when Russian stooge Trump was reelected.
There was a bit of a delay while deliveries authorised by Biden were delivered under Trump, but yeah.
Yes, but the other supporters have relied not only on the US for weapons and security but for strategic direction. As the US falls, so does its military doctrine, leaving Europe in a far worse position than just running out of air defense missiles. And as Europe stops being totally dependent on the US for security, the ability to end the war via negotiated settlement becomes much more practicable.