Moscow corrects the shot, describes its actions. It reframes the trajectories and verbally suggests some new scenarios for the conflict in Ukraine. The war against Kyiv which the Kremlin has never officially defined as such could result in a “foreseeable future“: Putin’s spokesman said, Dmitry Peskov, during an interview with Sky News channel. According to the tsar’s confidant, the Russian army’s objectives would indeed have been achieved, and this could lead to a more rapid dissolution of the socalled “special operation”.
Russia declared Peskov “hopes to be able to complete the special operation in Ukraine in the foreseeable future”, without excessive extensions. “Work is being done on the military side and on the part of the negotiators who are in contact with their Ukrainian counterparts,” continued the Kremlin official, who explicitly admitted yesterday that “heavy losses“charged by the Russians in relation to troops in the course of military interventions in Ukraine. Therefore, the statements about the completion of hostilities in the “foreseeable future” return to open interpretations and questions real goals of Moscow and on their actual (or nonperformance) performance.
In fact, Vladimir Putin himself initially spoke of a “denazification” of the country led by Zelenskyj, while his staff as the war progressed and some difficulties arose on the ground had indirectly dampened expectations. At the end of March, in particular, the Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu He had argued that the main goal of the operation was the “liberation” of Donbass. Reaffirmations that coincided with a withdrawal of Moscow troops from Kyiv and their repositioning in the territory of the Russianspeaking region of eastern Ukraine.
Now Peskov leaves achieving the goals of the military operation. Only strategy to enable reorganization of the Russian army or actual breakthrough? There are those who tend to a third hypothesis: the intensification of the Russian attacks in the Donbass in order to achieve a victory in this area by May 9, the significant date on which in Russia the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945 is celebrated on this anniversary, the French President also pointed out hin Macron in the last few hours, the Tsar is imperative to show the nation a result in his favour. Therefore, the Elysée tenant predicted “that we will experience difficult scenes in the coming weeks”.