HECTIC Two Terries Left Rusiana Conventioned

It’s 2:30 in the morning.

Inside the Kremlin walls, I wander through the huge basics trying – and unsuccessful – to find my way out.

I have listed the checkpoint, access and show my passport.

“Niet Vikhoda!” (“No exit!”) Answer answered. He shows in the opposite direction.

I’ll be back and finally, come to another checkpoint.

“No exit!” He says guard.

I’m lost. Inside the Kremlin. In mrtam night.

It’s like being in the novel John Le Carra.

It was an evening. I arrived at 5pm. Along with a small group of journalists, I was invited to “event with president of Putin”. What event? For the beginning of the Kremlin, he would not say. In the end, we were told that Vladimir Putin would invest issues.

Eight hours later, the President stood in the Malachite Grand Kremlin Palace’s hall and sat at the table.

But there was a change of plan. There is no conference for journalists. No questions. Instead, they live on Russian television, Putin submitted a statement in which he proposed direct talks between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul.

Event, I’m leaving the Kremlin Palace, but move wrong. Finally, I locate the correct output and, blears-eyes, take a taxi home.

This is the beginning of what it turned out that there was a ravatlar roller in two weeks. What started with a late night statement by the Kremljska statement continued with peace talks in Turkey, and then a two-hour telephone call between Putin and Donald Trump.

But in the end, are we closer to peace in Ukraine?

It doesn’t feel like that.

Although he talks about more conversations and possible future “memoranda” on “possible future peace”, that sounds rather vague.

The fight continues for now.

Russia continues to refuse to apply for unconditionally comprehensive truce. It has no intention of returning any of the Ukrainian land that she seized, occupied and claimed she was attached. On the contrary: pushes more.

Currently, the peace process is reminiscent of loss in the Kremlin late at night.

It’s hard to see the way out.

Still, the last two weeks are much discovered.

First, as Russia neutralizes potential threats and pressure points.

The Kremlin critics would put this second way: As Russia is playing on time.

10. May (a few hours before I lost in the Kremlj, European leaders made the ultimatum president of Putin: agree on a long-term truce in Ukraine in two days or face two days or a person who has matched new sanctions.

From March, Trump Administration calls Russia and Ukraine to accept a 30-day comprehensive truce. Kiev agreed. Moscow is not.

The Kremlin leader presented the European ultimatum with its counter-proposal direct talks in Turkey. The idea was welcomed with skepticism in Ukraine and throughout Europe. But it was enough to insert Trump and convince him that Russia seriously wanted to want peace. He was all for conversations. “The crash” of new sanctions has been postponed.

The Presidential Meeting of Istanbul 16. Maya, President Trump left the impression that Vladimir Putin could attend. The Kremlin leader did not, sent a low-level delegation, which once again rejected the idea of ​​long-term truce. But, again, the modest results of the conversation were enough to convince the American president that progress has been made.

Then came Trump-Putin’s phone call 19. May.

By the end of this, Russia has not yet agreed to an immediate comprehensive cessation of hostilities. Instead, according to Trump, “Russia and Ukraine will immediately begin negotiations towards the truce and, which is more important, the end of the war”.

But Moscow already throws doubt whether he would sign any future peace treaty with Ukrainian President Volodimir Green. A year, Russian authorities are trying to delegate the president of Ukraine since the expiration of his presidential mandate. However, the constitutional constitution prohibits the maintenance of the warning election.

And the reason for the fight against the law in Ukraine is the invasion of Russia.

“Should Russia sat down and sign a peace agreement with President Green?” I asked the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday.

“You put a wheelchair in front of the horse,” Mr. Lavrov replied. “We must have a deal first. When you agree, then we will decide. But as President Putin said many times, President Green has no legitimacy … Probably the best option will be the new choices …”

The Russian media concluded that after two weeks of Moscow diplomacy strengthened his hand.

“Russia won the latest round of the global poker,” said the newspaper was found last week.

“Donald Trump’s attitude cannot be more favorable Moscow,” Kommersant wrote. “In effect, he supported the Russian position” First Negotiations, violating later “and refused to strengthen sanctions against Russia.”

The social scientist said Kommersant: “Bar Donald Trump is, at least for now, our ideological partner on certain issues. His views are much closer to Russia than in Europe.”

And Ultra Pro-Kremlin Komsomolskaya justice had this message for European leaders:

“You are warned. Do not wave the threats and ultimatum in the bear face. Do not try to express conditions in conversations that have nothing to do with you.

“Just sit in the lobby and breathe the smell of a new world order.”

Moscow Trust Moscow also encourages the belief that, in Ukraine, the initiative holds the initiative on the battlefield.

Return to 2023. Donald Trump promised that, if he won the presidency, “We will have a terrible war between Russia and Ukraine … I’ll get both of them. I know the green, I know it. It will be done within 24 hours.

Trump was in an oval office for more than four months, but “terrible war” continues.

At rare occasions, he publicly recovered the Kremlin and threatened further sanctions. Last month, “There was no reason that Putin shoots missiles, in the last few days. It doesn’t mean to stop war, just made me differ, and we must differentiate with” banking “or” secondary sanctions. “

But there was no follow up. The American president seems to be reluctant to insert pressure on the Kremlin, instead of signaling Moscow to want to restart relations in the US Russia.

After the telephone conversation of the President, Putin’s Foreign Policy Advisor Jurij Usakov, who was sitting on the call, told reporters, “Trump spoke quite emotional about the prospects for (bilateral) as one of the most important partners in trade and economic matters.”

The President Trump seems to be determined to run into with his rapprochement with Russia, whatever happens in Ukraine.

And Moscow hears that.

“President Trump does not connect the following dialogue of US Russia in Ukraine peace process,” this week was a title in Russian government papir russian gazeta.

This does not mean that the Kremlin completely instructed the danger of additional restrictions. The American Senate threatened with severe new sanctions against Russia if Moscow does not seriously authorize diplomacy.

Until this moment, Kremlin managed to give up or premieres any pressure to come below to compromise and concessions regarding his war in Ukraine.

It seems that will still do it.