"Kommersant": in the capitals of Europe thought about the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict before the end of the year

The newspaper mentions the material of The Wall Street Journal, in which American journalists, citing sources, write that Berlin, Paris and London "intend to convince Kiev to enter into a dialogue with Moscow as early as 2023."

In return, they could offer Kyiv a defense pact that would give Ukraine greater access to Western military equipment and security guarantees.

“In the West, it seems that a general assessment of the prospects for the development of the conflict in Ukraine has begun to take shape,” the Kommersant article says.

The British The Economist wrote that the future of Ukraine hangs in the balance because of the predicament of the West.

As Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted, the “peace initiatives” put forward by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky are absurd.