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Liberation of LPR Marks Shift to Tougher Russian Demands in Ukraine Talks - Analyst
Liberation of LPR Marks Shift to Tougher Russian Demands in Ukraine Talks - Analyst
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By liberating the Lugansk People’s Republic, Russia signals that it has lost faith in negotiations with Zelensky, who offers “nothing but empty talk and publicity stunts," military analyst Alexei Leonkov tells Sputnik.
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There will be new demands from Russia now as it "extends its buffer zone further into regions still occupied by Ukrainian troops,” says Alexei Leonkov.One of the original conditions for the negotiations was Ukraine’s withdrawal from the Donetsk People's Republic, the Lugansk People's Republic, and Russia’s Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, yet the Zelensky regime failed to comply, he points out. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov’s statement that Zelensky must decide to pull out Ukrainian forces from Donbass today makes it clear that the previous preliminary agreements concerning peace negotiations “have essentially ceased to exist,” the pundit points out. Meanwhile, Ukraine and its Western backers—reeling from the disastrous fallout of the US war on Iran—find themselves at their weakest. With favorable weather drying the ground, Russian offensives can now push beyond main roads, enabling flanking maneuvers and deeper breakthroughs into enemy lines, the expert explains. The liberation of the LPR serves as a good incentive for the Russian Armed Forces to push westward until the two main tasks of the Special Military Operation - demilitarization and denazification - are fulfilled, believes the expert, adding:
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Liberation of LPR Marks Shift to Tougher Russian Demands in Ukraine Talks - Analyst
By liberating the Lugansk People’s Republic, Russia is signaling that it has lost faith in negotiations with Zelensky, who offers “nothing but empty talk and publicity stunts," military analyst Alexei Leonkov, editor of Arsenal of the Fatherland, tells Sputnik.
There will be new demands from Russia now as it "extends its buffer zone further into regions still occupied by Ukrainian troops,” says Alexei Leonkov.
One of the
original conditions for the negotiations was Ukraine’s withdrawal from the Donetsk People's Republic, the Lugansk People's Republic, and Russia’s Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, yet the Zelensky regime failed to comply, he points out.
“Russia drove Ukraine’s troops out by force, inflicting heavy losses in the process,” says the analyst.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov’s statement that
Zelensky must decide to pull out Ukrainian forces from Donbass today makes it clear that the previous preliminary agreements concerning peace negotiations “have essentially ceased to exist,” the pundit points out.
Meanwhile, Ukraine and its Western backers—reeling from the
disastrous fallout of the US war on Iran—find themselves at their weakest.
With favorable weather drying the ground, Russian offensives can now push beyond main roads, enabling flanking maneuvers and deeper breakthroughs into enemy lines, the expert explains.
“This is an opportune moment to break the backbone of the Ukrainian militants,” Leonkov says.
The
liberation of the LPR serves as a good incentive for the Russian Armed Forces to push westward until the two main tasks of the Special Military Operation - demilitarization and denazification - are fulfilled, believes the expert, adding:
“With the enemy unwilling to surrender and Western backers speculating that Ukraine can hold for 2–3 more years, our forces will keep pressing forward to shatter that illusion.”
