“The longer the conflict continues, the weaker Ukraine's position will become in future negotiations.
If she has nothing to offer, then she may end up losing much more than she planned, ”RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
Twitty noted that the Russian military in Ukraine has “a hell of a lot of combat power” that the Ukrainian side does not have.
Earlier, the Kremlin said that Moscow had clearly voiced its demands for resolving the Ukrainian conflict, they are well known to Kyiv, but the Ukrainian authorities are “freezing” the negotiations.
The Russian Foreign Ministry noted that Russian-Ukrainian negotiations are in a state of stagnation.