Ukraine, USA: “Biden is ready to talk to Putin. Diplomacy is the way to end war”

US President Joe Biden “is willing to talk to Vladimir Putin about a peace plan” for Ukraine. “The decision to end Russia’s war against Ukraine is in Putin’s hands.” This is what the US ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas Greenfield, said in an interview with Al Jazeera, who reiterated that the solution to the conflict cannot be exclusively military: “Diplomacy is the way to end war🇧🇷

US asked Kiev not to kill a Russian general

Not only. According to the New York Times, “The United States tried to stop Ukraine from killing a top Russian general.” American officials discovered that General Valery Gerasimov was planning a trip to the front lines, but withheld the information from the Ukrainians, fearing that an attempt on his life could lead to war between the United States and Russia. newspaper, “the Ukrainians learned of the trip. After a debate, Washington took the extraordinary step of asking Ukraine to call off the attack – only to be told that the Ukrainians had already launched it. Dozens of Russian soldiers died. General Gerasimov wasn’t one of them.”

Exactly one month ago, the American Chief of Staff, Mark Milley, had already announced that “the probability of a Ukrainian military victory that expels all Russians from the country, including Crimea, is very low”, stating then that the winter that it would have been “a good window to negotiate peace”. Mykhaylo Podolyak, adviser to President Zelensky, irritated the American general: “When you have the initiative on the ground, it’s a little strange to receive proposals like: ‘You won’t be able to do everything with military means anyway, you have to negotiate'” . According to the diplomat, this would mean that the country “that recovers its territories must capitulate to the country that is losing”.

Kiev: “The war must end in summer”

Oleksiy Arestovych, advisor to the Cabinet of the President of Ukraine, reiterated yesterday that the war will not end anytime soon, speaking – as reported by the UNIAN agency – on the “Feygin Live” broadcast. “The ongoing conflict qualifies as a protracted conflict, meaning it lasts from a year and a half to two years. Nobody likes a protracted conflict and it is partly dangerous. Even Sun Tzu said that war likes speed and dislikes procrastination”. According to the head of Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate, Major General Kyryl Budanov, the fighting in Ukraine they should be finished by summer from 2023.

In Kiev restored the heating system

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian population continues to resist. After the Russian attacks on the energy infrastructure, the heating system was completely restored in Kiev, the city this morning temperatures dropped below zero. To say the mayor of the capital, Vitali Klitschko, via Telegram.

On the Russian front, Defense Minister General Sergei Shoigu went to Ukraine to visit troops on the front lines. “The minister went on a business trip to the Southern Military District and inspected the group of troops in the areas of special military operations,” the ministry said in a statement, adding that “at the front line Shoigu spoke with the Russian military and thanked the personnel for the exemplary performance of combat missions”.