Wednesday, March 23, 2022

I will be traveling for a few days.

I think it is time Russia leave Ukraine. It has been a disasterous and unprovoked war. The deaths will only escalate. There is no reason for this to continue. This entire mess is a travesty. 

March 22, 2022
By Dominic Nicholls

Ukraine's peace negotiators (click here) may not be prepared for the belligerent KGB tactics of their Russian counterparts, a senior government adviser has warned.

Luliia Osmolovska, an adviser to the Ukraine government, said Moscow's team was taught to belittle opponents and would not engage constructively in talks with Kyiv until there was a “moment of ripeness”.

She told The Telegraph: “This moment appears when both parties understand the status quo is intolerable for both of them and they can't resolve issues unilaterally without communicating and engaging in cooperation with the other side.

“The Russians still don't feel this sense of ripeness for them, despite the fact that they are obviously underperforming heavily on the battlefield.”

Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin's spokesman, said on Tuesday that the negotiations were "going a lot slower" than Moscow hoped. Putting the results before a referendum, as Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, has promised, would only "undermine the process", he said....