12 minutes agoFormer Russian minister: Putin is buying time before he hits too hard
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)Andrei Kosyrev, who has been Russia's foreign minister in the 1990s-11996, has offered his analysis about Russia's pledge that it will reduce its military activity around Kiev and Chernihiv, writes Sky News, explains Periscopi. The good news from Russia-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul is not that Putin is suddenly behaving [...]
The good news from the Russia-Ukraine talks in Istanbul is not that Putin is suddenly acting in trust, but that Ukraine's heroic resistance is doing what he's trying to make for diplomatic campaigns”, he wrote at iuster.
Kosyrev -- an open critic of the war in Ukraine, said Moscow's promise of withdrawal “can easily be maneuvering for Russia to buy time for regroupation and then hit as hard as it can at”.
Putin's “Facing losses near Kiev, Putin now returns to conventional military diplomacy and maneuveration (not nuclear tactics), he continued.
Kosyrev warned the West against arms supply to Ukraine or sanctions against Russia, saying Vladimir Putin has so far placed bets on Ukraine's and the West's vulnerability”. / P ERISCOPI/
