Yermak, head of the Ukrainian ** office, made it clear in an interview that there will be no new Minsk-3 agreements, and any conditions that undermine the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine are unacceptable. He stressed that Western countries are not putting pressure on Ukraine, which will decide its future autonomously.
However, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine, Zaluzhny, admitted that Ukraine is no longer able to continue fighting;This may be due to the fact that a new round of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has distracted the West, or it may be that the West has underestimated Russia's potential, leading to a strategic correction that has to be made.
On November 2, the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Zaluzhny said in an interview with The Economist magazine that Ukraine will not have a major breakthrough in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict unless new technologies emerge that can give Ukraine a decisive advantage. In his opinion, given Russia's advantages in population and resources, in the absence of new technologies, Russia will have the upper hand.
In the short term, the new Palestinian-Israeli conflict has distracted the forces of the United States and the West that were originally concentrated on the battlefield in Ukraine. In the long term, Russia's balancing role as a civilization in the world is irreplaceable, as Kissinger said. As the world's energy center and the birthplace of many religions, the new round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict has attracted far more global attention and potential risks than the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Israel expects the war on Gaza to last a year, meaning that the Russia-Ukraine conflict is unlikely to be the center of the world's attention during this period.
For now, U.S. support for Ukraine appears to be waning, and Biden's proposed aid plan for Israel and Ukraine has run aside. With a long-term strategic balance in mind, the United States needs Russia to balance European power. If Russia is completely defeated or even disintegrated, the United States will lose the ability to control Europe. Therefore, it is unlikely that the United States will pursue a complete defeat or ** Russia.
In contrast, European countries such as Germany have been more active in providing assistance to Ukraine. For example, Germany-supplied Leopard II tanks arrived in Ukraine earlier than the American Abrams A-1, and Germany recently provided 5 billion euros in aid. Europe is eager to get rid of long-standing pressure from the East, but it is still dependent on the United States because it cannot assume security and defense on its own.
Referring to whether Zelensky would remove Zaluzhny from his post, Yermak said they were all committed to the same goal: Ukraine's victory.
Although no new Minsk agreements will be signed, the current situation shows that Ukraine is indeed unable to continue fighting.