Swiss peace summit will not produce the end of war in Ukraine as key stakeholders in the conflict – Moscow, Kyiv, and Washington – are pursuing unachievable goals, hold irreconcilable positions.
Approximately 100 nations, primarily from the Western world, participated in the Ukraine peace summit in Switzerland this past weekend. The high level conference, requested by the Kyiv government, aimed to 'jointly define a roadmap' for a peace process based on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s proposal. At the end of May, the Russian government also signaled willingness to consider a negotiated cease-fire that would recognize the current battlefield lines.
As he embarked on his fifth six-year term as president, the Russian spymaster has reshuffled his entire cabinet to optimize the functioning of Russia’s war machine and to ensure that only loyalists are in key roles. To keep the Russian economy impervious to Western sanctions, a process that he had started seven years prior to the invasion, Putin, an attorney and economist by training, installed a new defense minister, a prominent economist with no military background. To deter the U.S.
On the battlefield, Russia has the upper hand. Putin opened a new front, having launched a new offensive into the Kharkov region on May 10. The significant advances made by the Russian forces as Ukraine remains outmanned and outgunned has prompted Western fears that Russia may break through the current front lines.
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