Many people from Putin's circle dream of separate negotiations – serviceman Hudymenko

Yuriy Hudymenko, a junior sergeant of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, said this on Espreso TV. 

"Putin will go all the way, he has nowhere to run and nowhere to retreat. On the one hand, he has internal tensions, and on the other hand, he has a war that he will lose sooner or later. I am absolutely sure that Moscow can conduct separate negotiations. I don't think these are negotiations on any serious level – I don't see many people willing to talk to Lavrov at all right now. I don't see any opportunities in the United States to hear anything from Russia or to offer anything to Russia, except for an immediate withdrawal from the entire occupied territory of Ukraine, and Lavrov obviously doesn't want to hear that, can't and won't," he said.

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According to Hudymenko, Russia is very eager to hold separate negotiations.

"I am sure that a large number of people from Putin's entourage dream of separate negotiations because they do not want to drown with him. They will try to get themselves, their families and their entourage out of the sanctions, out of the water, but I don't think they have anything to offer now. The peculiarity of a dictatorial country is that only the dictator can offer something, and everyone else is just a performer," the serviceman summarized.