What to negotiate with Russia?

I have one question in response: what will they agree on?! Don’t you feel the gravity of the moment? We’ll be shocked by the conditions the Russians will impose on us. And these conditions won’t be about a ceasefire but about what Ukraine should be like. Believe me, neither you nor your children will want to live in the kind of Ukraine that Moscow proposes.

"There will be nothing else in the negotiations dreamt up by idealists. Understand this. Because they didn’t start all this just for a patch of scorched Donetsk land."

So calm down. No one will agree on anything with anyone. And if they do, it will last only a few weeks or months. After that, everything will resume again, only under worse conditions for us, as we’ll be burdened by unfavorable signed obligations, and the world will grow even colder to our problems.

It’s time to maturely accept the obvious: the war won’t end until Moscow loses the ability to continue it. We need to focus on stripping the enemy of its capabilities, not negotiating. Like it or not, there’s no other option. Well, unless you’re eager to return to the Gulag—then no one can help us.

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About the Author. Mykhailo Basarab, political scientist.

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