Since February 24, 2022, Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian-Ukrainian war. We publish your messages every day because we are certain that we need to keep talking about war. On February 28, the United States and Israel went to war with Iran. Do you think this will affect the world’s position on the Russian-Ukrainian war? Will she “fade into the background” as some believe? Will it become more difficult for Ukraine? Is it possible to compare the attack on Iran with the Russian attack on Ukraine? The feedback form is at the end of this article. You can read the previous day’s review here.
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A meeting was held between the Russian and American delegations in Florida yesterday. About this I mentioned US Special Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff.
The Russian delegation was headed by the special envoy of Russian President Kirill Dmitriev. In addition to Witkopf and the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, the American team included senior White House adviser Josh Gruenbaum. He had not previously participated in the negotiations.
Witkoff said the two sides discussed “various topics,” without specifying which ones. Dmitriev announced the “fruitful meeting”, but did not provide any details.
The last time such a bilateral meeting was held in Florida was at the end of January. Dmitriev then met with Kushner and Witkov in Geneva during the latest round of peace talks between Russia, the United States and Ukraine. Moscow indicated at the time that the Russian special envoy was not part of the official negotiating delegation, but was discussing issues of bilateral economic cooperation with the United States.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said a few days ago that tripartite negotiations on the peace agreement have now been postponed due to the war between the United States and Israel with Iran. He stated that Ukraine is ready to hold new meetings “at any moment” and that Kiev remains in contact with Washington “almost 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.”
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European countries offer Ukraine to fight for “another year and a half to two years” He said An influential member of Vladimir Zelensky’s Servant of the People party was reported to Ukrainskaya Pravda newspaper on condition of anonymity.
Materials from “Ukrainska Pravda” were intended for the situation in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Journalists found that, against the backdrop of corruption scandals and war fatigue, the Servant of the People Party had lost the discipline and incentive to support the initiatives of the presidential office. Many representatives want to hold early elections, but they are impossible so far.
“The Europeans said: Fight for another year and a half or two years. We will give you money.” Under their influence, Zelensky instructed the political leadership to develop a scenario where there would be no elections in Ukraine for several years.
In mid-February, Wall Street Journal journalist Bojan Pancevski reported that Zelensky, in a closed meeting with his advisers, said peace talks had “failed” and demanded a plan for three more years of war.
As the journalist said, before that meeting, the president’s office was working to present the agreement with Russia and the United States “whatever it may be” for a referendum and elections. The fact that Zelensky changed his mind was unexpected.
Zelensky’s office called the Wall Street Journal data a “stupid fake.” At the same time, BBC paid Attention: We should not take the fact that a war plan for the next three years has been prepared to mean that Kiev really wants to continue fighting. Journalists noted that the Ukrainian authorities’ letter is only intended to make clear to other countries that Kiev “is not in the mood to seize any deal that is offered” – Ukraine is striving for peace, but is also ready to continue hostilities.
War in pictures. Rehabilitation center in Lviv
War through the eyes of Medusa readers
Michael (Ural). Yes, no need to think about it [война на Ближнем Востоке] will affect [на отношении к российско-украинской войне]. Even the local war that followed October 7 largely pushed the Ukrainian topic aside. To be honest, I was very disturbed by this constant attention even by the Russian media to immigrants to Israel, which lasted more than two years, when the problem was local to Israel and Palestine. Now Trump has created a hospital for the insane that has affected many countries and threatens to escalate into a protracted war with dire consequences for the global economy. The only question is whether he will be able to get out of it in a reasonable time, or whether it will be another “20-minute trip” that will last for months and years. At the very least, obtaining Western weapons will be more difficult, and this is at best […].
[Сравнивать нападение на Иран с нападением на Украину] Possible and necessary. I have no sympathy for Iran, but this attack is the same example of an old man out of touch with an inflated ego. Now, in three days we will bomb everything, install our puppet and live. Plan A is stupid, and Plans B, C, and D are missing as a class. In general, there are a lot of similarities. As is the case with propaganda words to cover up the causes of war, so too is the treacherous covert attack. The entire Kremlin cabal along with the Supreme Leader denied everything days before the attack, and attacked Trump during the negotiations.
And another very important point: Trump is personally responsible for the conflict. Obama concluded the nuclear agreement signed by Iran, the United States, the European Union, and the Russian Federation. There was a real opportunity to improve relations, maybe the Iranian regime could relent, but because of Trump’s stupidity in his first term, Iran became an enemy, the ground was pulled out from under the Iranian reformers, and the protests began to grow even more due to economic problems. Indirectly, the blood of tens of thousands of protesters in January is a result of the fact that Trump is an idiot. The war with Iran is, from beginning to end, Trump’s creation, just as the war in Ukraine was, from beginning to end, Putin’s brainchild and sycophancy.
With Trump, Putin, Xi, Erdogan and other old-timers gone, the world may need to reinvent international law, which has become notoriously outdated in the 21st century. I hope that with such old fools, the world will not slide into World War III.