repeatedly saying that any peace

Since the talks in 2022, moreover, Russia has increased its demands when it comes to Ukrainian territory, repeatedly saying that for any peace deal to work, Kyiv and the West must accept Russian control over four mainland Ukrainian regions that Putin baselessly declared in September 2022 were part of Russia — Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhya, and Kherson — including large swaths of land that remain in Ukrainian hands. Putin’s call for direct negotiations means that he “sees an opportunity to draw Ukraine into an ‘Istanbul-2’ process, closely resembling the talks of March–April 2022, to pursue the same objectives — now including the newly annexed territories,” Tatyana Stanovaya, a senior fellow at the Berlin-based Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center and an expert on Putin’s administration สล็อต เว็บตรง