"All Putin's hopes for a truce were strongly rebuffed on September 8" - Piontkovsky

This is reported on Espreso TV. 

"Putin and his entourage hoped for mediators, and he continues to hope for a truce, despite all the rhetoric about the destruction of the Ukrainian state. On the one hand, he speaks at various forums with his crazy speeches, while all his diplomacy is working to achieve a cease fire and a truce. Initially, Draghi, Macron, and Scholz were sent to Kyiv, from where they were sent with this project to a known address, like a Russian ship. Then he hired Erdogan and paid him a huge price, giving complete freedom in the South Caucasus, Syria, and Libya, once again completely selling out the ally, Armenia," the political scientist noted.

Andrey Piontkovsky noted the shameful behavior of the head of Armenia Pashinyan, because Putin betrays him and the Armenian people time after time, and he runs around various forums after Putin, licking his *ss. But let the Armenian people deal with this.

"In Russia, they hoped until the last moment that they would be able to conclude an agreement, and then present it to the people as a kind of fake victory. Indeed, if the hostilities along the conflict line of the parties stop, they will say that we have already won back not only Crimea, but also part of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, and saved our compatriots. They hoped that the truce would cause mass appeals by all Putin's agents in Europe and the USA to give peace a chance and to urgently stop the supply of weapons to Ukraine. You saw the demonstrations organized in Europe.

But on September 8, all these hopes received a strong rebuff. Biden simply gathered the leaders of all European countries, sent his secretary to Kyiv to express his support, and his defense minister to Ramstein to announce a fundamentally new aid package. And this is the West's answer: No truce, Putin must lose the war," Piontkovsky emphasized.