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> If the talks are rejected, the Ukrainian side shall bear all responsibility for bloodshed On my personal opinion this is another case of Russia making unacce

• lawn 5y ago
  It's pretty obvious tbh.
  • 5e92cb50239222b 5y ago
    Because they don't care about fooling you ('the West'). It was done for internal consumption, as usual. I expect them to put the blame on Ukrainian diplomats in the evening news.
    • maury91 5y ago
      I believe it could be also an excuse to justify ( internally ) why the war is going so slow. "It is not that Ukrainians don't want to be saved and are fighting hard, it is because we want to give them opportunities for diplomacy and we stopped the hostility for a day"
  • zx85wes 5y ago
    They'd need a flying DeLorean to make it. It's 3:24PM there now.
• libertine 5y ago
  They probably can't do much other than trying to keep this rhetoric, but the truth is that at the moment, and probably for the foreseeable future, Putin and the regime "word" lost any worth. Doing what ever pleases you after saying you're doing something, like saying you won't do something while preparing to do the opposite has consequences. Duplicity has consequences. It might work internally, or against smaller isolated countries (regrettably), which is great for dictators... Trust was shattered, even if we accuse the West of being naive - still - in diplomacy trust paramount. I don't see how Putin will set his feet back into this globalized world. Who would trust his word for anything? So if the goal was to completely isolate Russia, destroy it's importance in the global theater in a time of change, that was achieved.
• wdb 5y ago
  Nothing that comes out of Kremlin can be believed