2023-11-04 18:19:14
American and European officials have begun quietly discussing with Ukraine the possibility of holding peace talks with Russia and how such an approach would help end the conflict, NBC reports, citing a senior US official, as well as a former official familiar with the process, according to media reports. discussions.
As part of the consultations, according to the TV channel, the possibility of a compromise was touched upon, which Ukraine would have to make in order to conclude some kind of deal with Russia. Negotiations, which were of a “delicate” nature, took place in October with the participation of representatives of more than 50 countries supporting Ukraine.
Western allies, NBC continues, doubt the ability to continue to support Ukraine. The administration of US President Joe Biden is also concerned that Ukraine is “running out of strength,” likely referring to high losses of personnel and equipment. Russia, in their opinion, still shows no signs of exhaustion.
In addition, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is experiencing great difficulties with mobilization. “Living force [Украины] worries the administration [Байдена] most of all now,” one of the sources said, emphasizing that the allies could supply Kiev with more weapons, “however, in the absence of competent military personnel to use them, they will be of little use.”
The Biden administration is also concerned about the decline in public interest in the Ukrainian crisis amid the worsening Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Moreover, public support for further supplies of weapons for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continues to decline. The last major aid package that Biden requested for Ukraine failed to pass congressional approval.
Deadlock and depletion of supplies
The United States has already admitted that it had to reduce the volume of military aid packages allocated to Ukraine “in order to stretch support,” as officially stated by White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on November 13. Funds previously approved by Congress are close to being depleted, she announced.
Earlier, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny, in an interview with The Economist magazine, said that the conflict in Ukraine had reached a dead end and Kyiv would not be able to achieve a breakthrough. Russia continues to achieve military success in the special operation zone, said Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov.
“Russia consistently continues to carry out a special military operation. All goals that have been set must be achieved. And the Kyiv regime should have understood long ago that even talking about any prospects for victory on the battlefield is absurd. The sooner the Kiev regime understands this for itself, the sooner some other prospects will open up for it,” Peskov told reporters the day before.
The deadlock around the Ukrainian conflict has really been reached in the matter of promoting the plans of the West and Ukraine, noted political analyst, teacher at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry Andrei Shevelyukhin. According to him, Ukrainians do not want to fight; they see Russia’s superiority, as well as the depletion of aid that the allies previously generously provided.
“With the US presidential election approaching, we are seeing how once again the Zelensky administration is thrown into turbulence and forced to make a decision already made overseas to narrow support measures. “The Democrats probably understand that their chances of winning the fight for the presidency, given the numerous inconsistencies in Biden’s speeches, are noticeably lower than their opponents from the Republican Party, many of whose representatives view the Ukraine issue differently,” he concluded.
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