\u201cMinsk-3\u201d<\/em> \u2013 an apparent reference to the two agreements signed in 2014 and 2015 by Ukraine and the breakaway Donbass and Lugansk People\u2019s Republics.<\/p>\nIn December 2022, former Chancellor Angela Merkel and former President Francois Hollande, who led Germany and France respectively and helped broker the accords, admitted that the negotiations and agreements were nothing but a ruse to help Ukraine buy time and prepare for a future conflict with Russia.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous European diplomats, reported that Kiev\u2019s backers had unofficially urged Ukraine to \u201ccome up with a more realistic plan\u201d<\/em> as its current maximalist goals would cost just way too much to the West.\u00a0<\/p>\nSince the start of the conflict in February 2022, Zelensky has publicly insisted on the restoration of Ukraine\u2019s 1991 borders, which would include Crimea. Moscow, in turn, has called on Kiev to accept the \u201creality on the ground.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nBack in June, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed an immediate ceasefire on the condition that Ukraine commit to eschewing its NATO aspirations, and withdraw its troops from all territories claimed by Russia. Kiev and its Western backers dismissed the roadmap as an ultimatum out of hand.<\/p>\n
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Dmitry Litvin has dismissed as \u201cfake\u201d a recent article in Bild claiming Kiev is prepared to suspend hostilities in certain areas Kiev has no intention of ceasing hostilities with Moscow anywhere along the current front line, contrary to what the German tabloid Bild would have its readers believe, a communications adviser to Ukrainian leader Vladimir…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2921,"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions\/2921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}