West begins to raise stakes in negotiations with Russia, Putin has fewer and fewer options - international policy expert

International policy expert Ramiz Yunus expressed his opinion on Espreso TV.

According to him, the Russian Federation bluffed with nuclear weapons for 20 years, but did not exert strong pressure because the West did not resist. However, when Ukraine raised the stakes, declaring that there would be no negotiations in the case of the trial of the Mariupol defenders, and when Volodymyr Zelenskyy issued a decree that he would not negotiate with Vladimir Putin, the Russian Federation backed down.

"Now the stakes have been raised. Then Generals Hodges, Petraeus, then Biden himself, all Western leaders began to speak confidently, then the 101st Division appeared. That is, the West began to raise its stakes regularly. And also the bombing of the military airfield in Crimea,  what happened there now, and no one knows who did it, no one will admit it, although it doesn't matter at all: Russia understands that they are being taken quietly, the target is all the main infrastructure objects, considering how they are bombing Ukraine's energy infrastructure. That's why Putin's options are getting fewer and fewer," Ramiz Yunus emphasized.

The political scientist noted that this is why Vladimir Putin is in a hurry and is trying in every possible way to maintain this situation.

"And if before that he said that he would definitely go to the G20, then the day before yesterday in Sochi he said: this question has not yet been resolved. And why go there when there will be no "picture" - a meeting with Biden, something that will be possible to "sell" someone? If Zelenskyy was at the G7 and Zelenskyy will be at the G20, again virtually, but still at a high, respectable level, that is, Ukraine will take the place of Russia in both the G7 and the G20, why would Putin have such a situation?" he remarked.