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Russia and the US did not make progress toward a peace deal for Ukraine during their talks, a senior aide to Vladimir Putin has said, hours after the Russian president issued threats that Russia was ready for war with Europe.

In remarks to Russian media, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said that after a five-hour meeting with Trump envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, the two sides were “neither further nor closer to resolving the crisis in Ukraine. There is a lot of work to be done.”

The downbeat assessment of Tuesday night’s diplomacy follows combative opening statements from Putin as Witkoff and Kushnerarrived for talks at the Kremlin, in which he accused European powers of sabotaging peace in Ukraine and that “European demands” on ending the war were “not acceptable to Russia”.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 52 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Lmfao no you’re not, fuckwit. You’re deploying infantry bum rushes in appropriated civilian sedans with the doors ripped off. The Taliban has better kit than that, for fuck’s sake.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

According to the tankies, Russia now has the largest army ever at 1.5m men and are stronger than when they started the special operation. So like they have ..the cards…and not just endless meat waves. It doesn’t matter they’ve only gained inches of territory in months.

[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or that Ukraine is holding them off with basically scraps of obsolete Western military equipment, very little first line hardware. Attack Europe and you find the full weight of NATO's first line military hardware shoved up your ass. Somebody pushes a button somewhere and a few dozen Tomahawk missiles destroy your ability to wage war in an afternoon. Nukes not even needed if every airfield and military supply depot within 500 mi of Europe is a smoking crater.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And Ukraine using some modern stuff manage to deep strike Russian economic targets. And new homegrown stuff too.

Putin is trying to save face and trying to entice NATO to attack Russia to justify the wars

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Trump is Putin's hail-Mary. The only way Putin gets a victory in Ukraine is if it is handed to him.

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