Putin wants new administration in Ukraine
Russia and Ukraine are not willing to make concessions on the ceasefire agreement. Moscow is giving one condition after another for a peace agreement. Now Russian President Vladimir Putin’s new demand is that the current government of Ukraine should be removed and an interim administration should be put in power. Only with the help of that administration will the war end.
On Friday, Putin spoke to reporters while visiting the Murmansk port in northern Russia. At that time, he was full of praise for US President Donald Trump. Putin said, “In my opinion, the newly elected president who came to power in the United States is aware of ending this conflict for various reasons.”
Noting that new elections will be held under them when the interim administration comes to power in Ukraine and the war will end, Putin said that Russia is in favor of a peaceful solution to any war, including this one. However, Moscow will not be able to make any concessions for such a solution. Members of the Russian military are strategically ahead on the front lines of the war. The war in Ukraine has been going on for more than three years. Martial law was imposed in the country after the war began. The elections were postponed. As a result, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s term ended earlier this year, but he is still in power. Trump also recently objected to this. He directly called Zelensky a ‘dictator’.
In fact, Kiev has been in great danger since Trump took power. Trump has moved away from the way the former US president had been giving them unwavering support. In addition to his efforts to broker a peace agreement, he has also launched a kind of attack on Kiev. However, when asked about Putin’s comments yesterday, the White House did not comment directly. A spokesperson for the White House’s National Security Council said that who will be in power in Ukraine will be determined by the country’s constitution. More areas of Kursk under Moscow’s control
Since the war began in February 2022, one-fifth of Ukraine’s territory is now under Russian control. Russian forces are in a good position against Ukrainian forces in the country. In the meantime, they have liberated another village in Russia’s Kursk region from Ukrainian hands. Ukrainian forces captured a large part of the region in a surprise operation last August.
The village that Russia took control of is called Zogolevka. The village was liberated today, the Russian Defense Ministry said. Earlier, Russian forces took control of several other areas in the Kursk region in the last three weeks. Ukraine now controls only the border areas in this region.
Gradually losing control of Kursk, Kiev’s position in the ceasefire agreement has become weaker. Volodymyr Zelensky wanted to use the region as a bargaining chip for the agreement. Perhaps with that in mind, Putin said during his visit to Kursk earlier this month that the region should be liberated at any cost. Terms of mineral resources agreement not finalized
Meanwhile, Washington has said that the terms of the mineral resources agreement that is supposed to be signed between the United States and Ukraine have not yet been finalized. Ukrainian officials gave this information today. Earlier, the US government made a new proposal to Ukraine regarding the agreement.
The document of the proposal, obtained by Reuters, shows that according to the agreement, the United States will have to pay income from Ukraine’s mineral resources. This way, the amount of money Washington has paid to Kiev over the past three years will have to be paid. Interest will also be added to this.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Vilia Svirydenko told the country’s lawmakers that Ukraine’s position will be announced only if there is a consensus on the new draft agreement that the United States has submitted to it. Public discussions on it before then could be harmful. And Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior official in President Zelensky’s office, said that there is no final draft of the agreement yet. Discussions are still ongoing at various levels in various ministries.
