RAINER SAKS | After Moscow Visit, a Jab at the United States Came from Russia. Zelenskyy Got Ideas He Must Not Discuss
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- Security expert Rainer Saks says the clearest result of two days of U.S. envoys’ talks in Moscow and Kyiv was the reopening of negotiations.
- He says the meetings did not yet produce any easing of the opposing sides’ positions.
- Russia halted air attacks on Moscow and Kyiv during the visit but continued drone strikes elsewhere in Ukraine, while Ukraine attacked an oil refinery in Ryazan.
The most concrete result of two days of talks by U.S. special envoys in Moscow and Kyiv was probably the restart of the negotiating process. But it is still too early to speak of any deconfliction between the positions of the warring sides, writes security expert Rainer Saks of Parempoolsed.
During the envoys’ visit, Russian President Vladimir Putin pushed through a ceasefire limited to stopping air attacks on Moscow and Kyiv. The Russian army nevertheless continued drone attacks elsewhere in Ukraine, and civilians were among the casualties.
The Ukrainian army, meanwhile, demonstrated its own capabilities. In the early hours of the previous day, it responded with a drone attack on an oil refinery in Ryazan. The plant caught fire in two locations, indicating that the attack was extensive.
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