> Let's not forget that Russia and Ukraine had a ceasefire negotiated in May whereby Russia would have pulled back to the pre February lines, and that Boris Jo

> Let's not forget that Russia and Ukraine had a ceasefire negotiated in May whereby Russia would have pulled back to the pre February lines, and that Boris Johnson rushed to Kiev to intervene[1]. That is the exact opposite of what the referenced link say: > According to multiple former senior U.S. officials we spoke with, in April 2022, Russian and Ukrainian negotiators appeared to have tentatively agreed on the outlines of a negotiated interim settlement: Russia would withdraw to its position on February 23, when it controlled part of the Donbas region and all of Crimea, and in exchange, Ukraine would promise not to seek NATO membership and instead receive security guarantees from a number of countries. But as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated in a July interview with his country’s state media, this compromise is no longer an option. Even giving Russia all of the Donbas is not enough. “Now the geography is different,” Lavrov asserted, in describing Russia’s short-term military aims. “It’s also Kherson and the Zaporizhzhya regions and a number of other territories.” The goal is not negotiation, but Ukrainian capitulation. https://archive.is/1V1Wv#selection-4391.57-4411.207 https://archive.is/1V1Wv#selection-4391.57-4411.207 There's a bunch of other things in this comment that also reflect standard Russian propaganda. For example this is straight from Russian claims but has no basis in fact: > The result of that 7 year effort is that the sanctions politics on Russia have damaged the western economies way more than Russia. It's true that Russia spent a lot of effort protecting their economy from sanctions. But the personal sanctions on individuals have been effective.