Russia urges West to negotiate as battlefield shifts in Ukraine
Secretary of the Russian Security Council Sergei Shoigu stated on Thursday that the situation on the battlefield in Ukraine "is not favorable for Kyiv," and the West "should acknowledge this and negotiate an end to the war based on current realities."
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Secretary of the Russian Security Council Sergei Shoigu declared on Thursday that the situation on the battlefield in Ukraine is not favorable for Kyiv, and the West should acknowledge this and negotiate an end to the war based on current realities.
"A tool for Russia's strategic defeat"
"Now that the situation on the battlefield is not favorable for the authorities in Kyiv, the West faces a choice: to continue financing it and destroying the Ukrainian population or to acknowledge the situation and start negotiating," Shoigu, the former Russian Defense Minister, stated at a meeting of security council secretaries of the Commonwealth of Independent States in Moscow.
He added that the West, with the help of "color revolutions," began transforming Ukraine into a "tool for Russia's strategic defeat," but this plan failed.
Ukrainian project DeepState, citing monitoring data, reported on Wednesday that Russian forces occupied around 190 square miles of Ukrainian territory in October. This is the most in the entire 2024, as well as since the start of the Russian counteroffensive in October of last year.
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