In light of Russia and Ukraine exchanging accusations of responsibility for the continuation of the war between them and aborting the possibility of negotiation to stop it, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that his country is ready for negotiation, so is it time to end this war?

Putin accused his country's opponents of seeking to dismantle it, in reference to an international polarization that is witnessing a movement that is pushing Beijing to sever its strategic relations with Moscow.

On the other hand, Ukraine is practicing a lot of field escalation and international polarization between major powers related to the war raging in Kyiv.

For his part, Mikhailo Podolyak, adviser to the Ukrainian president, said that Russia does not want negotiations, is trying to avoid responsibility and continues to kill civilians, and the Ukrainian official called on Putin to "return to reality."

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on his people not to submit to the 10-month-old war, and urged Ukrainians to persist and persevere.

desire and caution

Regarding Russia's desire to negotiate, Ambassador Andrei Baklanov, Vice-President of the Association of Russian Diplomats, said - in his interview with the "Behind the News" program (12/25/2022) - that Putin confirmed his willingness to negotiate, but with caution, because Moscow is facing a problem in determining the content of the negotiations and the guarantees that will be given. Make it real and meaningful.

Baklanov went on to say that the previous negotiations were an attempt to deceive Russia, and there was no real desire to meet the agreed terms, stressing that there are regions that have been annexed to the Russian Federation while the Ukrainian authorities are demanding their return to their control, and this is what Russia considers a sensitive issue, which makes entering into Negotiations are so difficult now.

While talking about signs of entering into negotiations, Ambassador William Courtney, assistant to former US President Bill Clinton for Russia and Ukraine, considered that there are no indications that the Kremlin is serious about its desire for negotiations with Ukraine.

Courtney explained that the intention of the negotiations requires field indications, including stopping the bombing of Ukrainian civilian facilities or reducing the concentration of Russian forces on the battlefield, but there are no military indications that suggest that Russia is sincere and that its thinking is serious about its thinking of withdrawing from Ukraine.

What is happening in the field?

As for the field level, it is mentioned that the battles and mutual shelling operations continue along the Ukrainian front, and coincided with the sound of warning sirens in a number of Ukrainian cities in anticipation of Russian air strikes.

At a time when the Ukrainian side announced that the Russian forces had renewed their bombing of the Kherson, Zaporizhia and Mykolaiv provinces, and that the Ukrainian army, in return, had struck the Russian forces and held the battle lines, especially in the rural areas of Zaporizhia, the Russian side focused on the results of the civilian losses that were recorded as a result of the Ukrainian bombing of the regions. which he controls in Luhansk, as a result of the fall of American "HIMARS" missiles, according to Courtney.

What does China want?

On the other hand, these developments are surrounded by an international climate whose broad title is sharp polarization, which makes the major powers farther than before from agreeing on peaceful solutions, as China is moving towards deepening its strategic relations with Russia, in light of the escalation of tension with the United States of America against the background of the Taiwan file. .

In this regard, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that his country's relations with Washington face serious challenges due to the persistence of what he called Washington's obstinacy in seeing Beijing as its main competitor.

He stressed that China's relationship with Russia is strong and based on cooperation, non-confrontation and non-targeting of a third party, expressing his country's strong rejection of the US administration's policy towards it.