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Vladimir Putin likely used his meeting with Kazakhstan’s president to justify his refusal to freeze the front line in Ukraine and continue the war. This is according to a report from ISW<\/a>, UATV English<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

It is noted that Putin’s meeting with Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev took place in Omsk at the Russian-Kazakh Forum of Interregional Cooperation. During the meeting, Tokayev stated that many people find it hard to understand the reasons for Russia’s war in Ukraine, and called for freezing the front line and returning to negotiations in the Istanbul format.<\/p>\n

Putin did not respond to Tokayev in the public part of the meeting, but Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov claims Putin later explained the war to Tokayev in detail and said freezing the front line was impossible, since Russia must “achieve its goals on the battlefield.”<\/p>\n

Peskov repeated the Kremlin’s claim that hostilities could stop “by the end of today” if Ukraine “makes the appropriate decisions.”<\/p>\n

ISW analysts note that Kremlin officials consistently call on Ukraine to capitulate to Russia’s maximalist war demands, which, as the Kremlin has repeatedly emphasized, include the entirety of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions, even before peace negotiations begin \u2014 negotiations that offer no guarantee of reaching a peace agreement.<\/p>\n

“Putin, facing declining approval and trust ratings, an increasingly difficult economic situation, and mounting losses for minimal gains in Ukraine, continues to wage his war largely the same way he has since 2022. The Kremlin continues to signal to Russians that they should be prepared to bear the costs of a prolonged war against Ukraine, and likely used Putin’s meeting with Tokayev as an occasion to remind Russians of this,” the analysts note.<\/p>\n

As previously reported, Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev proposed that Putin “freeze” the war in Ukraine with the assistance of world powers.<\/p>\n

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called Kazakhstan’s president’s appeal a “realistic, timely, and wise message” and stressed that Ukraine has proposed stopping the war along the current front line and moving to diplomacy, but the Kremlin continues to reject this clear path to peace.<\/p>\n

Read also:<\/strong> Putin Is Counting on Mobilizing Between 300,000 and 500,000 People \u2014 Zelenskyy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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