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Putin Dragging Out Ukraine War Plays to His Advantage: Zelensky (newsweek.com)

Sounds like Zelensky has started to back-pedal. The war is all but over and has been for a while. A great pity they never sat down to resolve this diplomatically - Uks would have got everything bar Crimea. Now the Donbas is gone too. I suspect from what the Russkies have said that if long-range weapons are provided to Ukr the Russkies will push further west. Those that have suffered are the Mums and Dads and Kids of Ukr and their property. How very sad! They MUST now sit down and find a way to live together peacefully albeit with less of Ukr by land area - most likely the east will vote to join the Russkies.

Vladimir Putin prolonging his invasion of Ukraine will be beneficial for him as other countries grow weary of the conflict, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned on Monday.

More than 100 days after the Russian president ordered the invasion, the two Eastern European countries are yet to make any substantial progress on peace negotiations, each bringing their own demands to the negotiating table. As the fighting continues, some world leaders and experts have questioned in recent weeks what the end of the conflict will look like.

Ukraine, for its part, has stood strong in its pledge to only end the war when Russian troops are back to their pre-invasion positions, while Putin has said he would not agree to end the war until the two countries settle the issue of Donbas and Crimea.