Is Vladimir Putin ready to stop the shooting or play for time?

Vladimir Putin says Russia is ready to stop the fighting, but “there are accurate differences.” These nuances that he put before talking to us to the Kremlin envoy are the key to his thinking that they can be able to resent any hope for a 30 -day ceasefire.

They are required that it was all over Russia’s invasion of Russia on a large scale. And for Ukraine and its Western partners. Many of them will prove that it is unacceptable or impossible to fulfill it.

“We agree with the proposals to stop the fighting,” he started positively, just to add: “This stop should lead to a long -term peace and remove the root causes of this crisis.”

No one differs with the need for long -term peace, but Putin’s idea of ​​the root causes of the war revolves around Ukraine’s desire to exist as a sovereign state, outside the orbit of Russia.

Ukraine wants to be part of NATO and the European Union – it is a lot, it is dedicated to the constitution.

President Trump has already doubted NATO membership, but Putin has repeatedly refused the idea of ​​Ukraine as a country at all.

This supports many nuances he drew.

He wants to prevent Ukraine from strengthening its army and renewing its weapons supplies – so there will be no more delivery from the West. He wants to know who will guarantee this.

Since the beginning of this war, Putin has called for a “delivery” of Ukraine, a curse of Kiev and its allies.

In essence, Putin is looking for security guarantees in the opposite direction.

Will Russia agree to stop or mobilize its forces? This seems unreasonable and there was no hint of any privilege on his part, as he addressed journalists in the Kremlin.

Putin has just returned in a bullish mood of the confrontation line in Kursk, a Russian border region that has been partially occupied since last Ukraine.

Russia has the upper hand in Kursk. It is clear that Putin feels that he is negotiating the position of power and does not want to lose it.

“If we stop military measures for 30 days, what does that mean? Will they leave each of the battle?”

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Thursday that its forces now took control of the largest city that the Ukrainians managed to seize, sudzha. Putin says that all Ukrainians have left a wedge, so why does Russia stop now?

“If the material blockade occurs in the coming days, no one will be able to leave at all. There will only be two options-to surrender or die.”

The same applies to the 1,000 -km of confrontation line (620 miles), as he claimed that the situation on the ground was changing quickly, as Russian forces advanced in all areas in practice.

This is not the case, because most of the front is on a dead end, even if Russia has achieved some last success in the east.

Putin believes that the ceasefire for 30 days would deprive Russia of its interest and enable the Ukrainians to reassemble and reinforcing their ranks.

“What are our guarantees that nothing like that will not be allowed to happen,” he asked the speech.

To date, no mechanism has been provided to ensure that the conditions for any ceasefire will keep it.

Although 15 Western countries were presented to the peacekeepers initially, they will only come in the event of a final peace agreement, not a ceasefire.

It is not that Russia will allow this arrangement anyway.

Looking at all these “nuances”, Putin seemed skeptical of how to compensate for the ceasefire in Russia, especially when his forces were on the front foot. His entire view was “based on how the situation developed on the ground.”

Putin was meeting with Trump’s envoys in Moscow late Thursday, especially Steve Witkeov.

Whatever happens in those talks, Putin knows that in the end, he will be his most important conversation with the president.

“I think we need to speak to our American colleagues … we may receive a phone call with President Trump and discuss this with him,” he said.

But Putin was putting a booth before these talks, with a message that the road to a ceasefire was full of conditions that almost impossible to face.