So how does Russia create a buffer zone without succeeding in...

So how does Russia create a buffer zone without succeeding in the invasion of Ukraine?

The conditions Putin has put down for peace is Eastern Ukraine, and non-membership of NATO.


(what is a buffer zone in today's nuclear world, submarines that can cruise into any American or Russian port? Cuba and the current show of force of Russia proves that/

Priggy said the invasion was for the elites, a land grab. Putin has proved that land was the objective in his latest statement. There is no mention of buffer zone in Putin's latest round, that is your inference

Putin

"The conditions are very simple," Putin said, listing them as the full withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the entire territory of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions in eastern and southern Ukraine.

Russia claimed the four regions, which its forces control only partially, as part of its own territory in 2022, an act rejected by most countries at the United Nations as illegal.

Moscow annexed Ukraine's Crimea peninsula in 2014.

"As soon as they declare in Kyiv that they are ready for such a decision and begin a real withdrawal of troops from these regions, and also officially announce the abandonment of their plans to join NATO - on our side, immediately, literally at the same minute, an order will follow to cease fire and begin negotiations," Putin said.

Ukraine has no chance of joining NATO in the next decade before Putin invasion

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