Is Vladimir Putin ready to stop fire or time play?

Russia is ready to stop in the struggle, says Vladimir Putin, but there are nuances. Those nuances he exposed before talking to us envoys to the Kremlin are so key to his thinking that they could find all hope for a 30-day end of fire.

They are the demands that he had throughout the full -scale invasion of Russia. For Ukraine and its Western partners. Many of them will be unacceptable or impossible to execute.

“We agree with the proposals to end the hostilities,” he started positively, just to add, “This termination must be such as to lead to long -term peace and to remove the root causes for this crisis.”

No one would agree with the need for long -term peace, but Putin’s idea of ​​the root causes of war revolves around Ukraine’s desire to exist as a sovereign state outside the orbit of Russia.

Ukraine wants to be part of NATO and the European Union – so much that it is attached to the Constitution.

President Trump has already questioned NATO membership, but Putin has repeatedly rejected the idea of ​​Ukraine as a country at all.

And this is the basis of many of the nuances he outlined.

He wants to stop Ukraine from strengthening his army and filling his supply with weapons – so there will be no more supplies from the West. He wants to know who would guarantee that this was checked.

Since the beginning of this war, Putin has demanded the “demilitarization” of Ukraine, which is the anathema of Kiev and its allies.

Essentially, Putin is looking for security guarantees back.

Will Russia agree to stop the reincarnation or mobilization of its forces? This seems implausible and there was no hint of discounts as he turned to the Kremlin reporters.

Putin has just returned to the mood from the front line in Kursk, a Russian border region that has been partially occupied since last August from Ukraine.

Russia has the upper hand in Kursk. Putin obviously feels that he is negotiating from a position of power and does not want to lose it.

“If we stop the hostilities in 30 days, what does this mean? Will everyone who are there?”

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Thursday that its forces had already taken full control of the largest city that the Ukrainians had managed to seize, Suja. Putin says all Ukrainians have left is a wedge, so why will Russia stop now?

“If a physical blockade appears in the coming days, no one will be able to leave at all. There will only be two options-to surrender or die.”

The same applies to the entire first line of 1000 km (620 miles), where he claims that the situation on the earth is changing quickly, with Russian troops “progressing in practically all areas.”

This is not the case, since the greater part of the front is a stalemate, even if Russia has had some recent success in the East.

Putin believes that a 30-day cessation of fire would deprive Russia of its benefit and allow the Ukrainians to regroup and carry themselves.

“What are our guarantees that nothing like this will be allowed to happen,” he asked rhetorically.

So far, no mechanism has been proposed to ensure that the conditions of any termination of the fire will have.

Although 15 Western countries offered peacekeeping troops, they would only come in the case of a final peace transaction, not to end the fire.

Not that Russia would allow this agreement anyway.

Given all these “nuances”, Putin seemed skeptical how the cessation of fire could benefit from Russia, especially when his troops were on the front leg. His whole perspective was “based on how the situation on Earth was developing.”

Putin was meeting Trump’s envoys to Moscow late Thursday, more special Steve Vikof.

Whatever happens in these conversations, Putin knows that in the end, his most important conversation will be with the president.

“I think we have to talk to our American colleagues … Maybe we have a phone call with President Trump and discuss it with him,” he said.

But Putin exposed his stall to these conversations, with a message that the path to cessation was strewn with conditions that would be almost impossible to implement.