An assistant to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Alexey Arestovich, claims a peace agreement between Moscow and Kiev is possible within the next few weeks. On February 24, Russia launched an assault on a neighbouring country.
The most probable scenario is that we’ll get a peace accord by May, maybe even sooner. On Monday, Arestovich appeared on Mark Feygin’s YouTube channel and remarked, “We’ll see what happens.” In the best-case scenario, an agreement on the departure of Russian soldiers might be concluded within “one to two weeks.”
According to a daily video speech by President Zelensky, Russia has lost 80 aeroplanes and “hundreds of tanks and thousands of other equipment” in the last 19 days of conflict. On Monday evening, Russia’s Defense Ministry said that it has destroyed roughly 1,300 Ukrainian tanks and other armoured vehicles, approximately 600 different artillery pieces, and 145 drones in the conflict.
It was reported on Monday by the Russian Defense Ministry that the government had proceeded to demolish radar installations and weapons stores. Russian ground offensives had “no major success,” according to a report released by the Ukrainian General Staff on Tuesday morning.
Both sides have been coy about the number of casualties they’ve sustained. Zelensky stated on Saturday that the Ukrainian military had suffered a loss of around 1,300 men. In its most recent casualty report, Moscow said that 498 troops had been killed and almost 1,600 had been injured as of March 2.
POSSIBLITY OF THE CONFLICT
When Ukraine refused to fulfil the provisions of the Minsk peace deal, Russia launched a pre-emptive strike on neighbouring Ukraine after a seven-year stalemate. The agreements negotiated by Germany and France were intended to normalise the status of the Ukrainian state’s separatist areas.
According to reports, Russia is now pressuring Ukraine to proclaim itself a neutral nation, meaning it would never join NATO’s military alliance headed by the United States of America. Russia’s invasion was unprovoked, according to Kiev, which denies any plans to reclaim the two breakaway republics by force in Ukraine and the Russian Federation.
“Concrete” progress was made in the fourth round of video-conferenced meetings, according to an advisor. There was a “technical halt” till Tuesday for “clarification of particular meanings,” according to Mykhailo Podolyak, another Ukrainian presidential aide.
Russian and Donetsk People’s Republic soldiers encircle the Azov Sea port of Mariupol, which has been the subject of earlier negotiations to provide safe passage for civilians fleeing troubled areas like Mariupol (DPR). It and the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) split away from Ukraine after the 2014 coup in Kiev.
Published By :- Shubham Agarwal
Edited By :- Kritika Kashyap
