PoliticsWar Kremlin: Ukraine should settle for Russia’s circumstances and surrender integration with the West to finish the warfare. Friday, June 13, 2025

The pinnacle of the Russian negotiation delegation, Vladimir Medinsky, stated that if Kyiv doesn’t conform to “compromises”, it would face new territorial losses.

“We wish peace. But when Ukraine continues to be guided by the nationwide pursuits of different international locations, we are going to merely be pressured to reply,” Medinsky said.

Putin’s aide additionally famous that Russia’s warfare with Ukraine is “a fratricidal battle between states with a standard language and tradition, that are doomed to be shut allies.” “Sadly, this battle deepens our variations, and subsequently we would like it to finish as quickly as attainable,” Medinsky stated.

Nevertheless, Bloomberg reported in Might that Putin was not planning to finish the warfare, relying on the expectation that by the tip of the 12 months his military will have the ability to break by way of Ukrainian defenses and utterly occupy the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson areas. He additionally ordered the institution of a “safety buffer zone” alongside the Russian-Ukrainian border within the Kharkiv and Sumy areas. Russian management additional claimed that Moscow is contemplating the choice of seizing new Ukrainian territories, similar to a part of the Dnipropetrovsk area, with a subsequent supply of an “trade” for Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.