Nothing significant was resolved in the dialogue between the Russian and American presidents. From the tone of this conversation, we can assume that Trump will not be able to persuade Putin to make concessions in the negotiations. However, Trump, who claims to calm the war, said that both sides would sign an agreement if necessary, making territorial concessions. However, it is clear that Putin cannot be forced to make concessions with such a soft position.
Recently, an interesting report was published in the Russian newspaper Kommersant. This newspaper has a journalist named Andrei Kolesnikov, who prepares written reports from events attended by Putin. Kolesnikov, a war propagandist, wrote an article about the next event attended by the Russian president, and in it he also quoted what Putin said in a closed meeting.
Kolesnikov this time covered Putin's meeting with businessmen. The event, held at the House of Music in Moscow, was attended by major representatives of Russian business and military-industrial enterprises. According to Kolesnikov, Putin said during a closed meeting with businessmen that if the West had recognized Crimea as Russian and accepted the autonomy of the "LDHR", Russia would not have launched a "special military operation". As you know, in Russia the invasion of Ukraine is called a "special military operation". It is officially forbidden to call a war a war.
According to Kommersant sources, the issue of returning the Ukrainian cities occupied by Russia is not being discussed in the negotiations to end the war. "Crimea, Sevastopol, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhia should be recognized as territories belonging to Russia," the newspaper's sources said. For your information, all of these territories are considered Ukrainian. Russia does not fully control the territories other than Crimea mentioned above.
According to the participants in the closed-door meeting, Putin may back down from his plan to annex Odessa if the West recognizes the five Ukrainian territories as Russian. “The participants in the meeting told me that if this happens soon, Russia will not lay claim to Odessa,” Kolesnikov writes.
The correspondent’s words imply that if the above conditions are not met, Russia will also try to annex Odessa, one of the most Russian cities in Ukraine. And you probably know that on the border with Odessa there is one of the poorest and weakest, small states in Europe…
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