The war between Ukraine and Russia has been going on for almost two years, but Ukraine has not achieved decent results. The United States and the West have lost faith in Ukraine, and they no longer believe that investing more resources and support can change the tide of the war.
The defeat of Ukraine also made the United States and the West no longer willing to take risks, and they did not dare to deliver the most advanced ** to Ukraine so as not to provoke Russia. At the moment, Ukrainian ** Zelensky is trying to end the war, but the way it ends and the conditions of the truce depend on Russia. Russia has the initiative, and the conditions they put forward must be harsh.
In addition to wanting to annex four oblasts of Ukraine, Putin has demanded the creation of a demilitarized zone in Ukraine deep enough to prevent Ukraine from using foreign-made long-range ** strikes on Russian cities. To be able to protect against foreign-made, long-range** strikes on Russian cities, the DMZ may need to be more than 1,000 kilometers deep.
This will involve large swaths of Ukrainian territory. The article argues that the most dangerous moment of the war between Ukraine and Russia has passed, and the key now is how to end the war and negotiate.