“We can [though] enter a phase that is most unfavorable for Ukraine in its ‘independent’ state: a phase of neither peace nor war. We could be in this phase if, instead of the special military operation, the [currently occupied] territories were recognized and officially taken under guardianship. But it would require a completely different twist of history,” Khodakovsky said.

I find it consistently amazing and hilarious that Russian strategic leadership appears entirely incapable of recognizing that they can’t simply dictate geopolitics, warfare, and international borders to external parties. Ukraine - and to a lesser degree, its allies - get a vote too, and they’re not going to be “freezing” anything for the foreseeable future.

I get that it's propaganda for domestic morale, but I also get that if someone like Khodakovsky writes something like this then the newspapers are invariably going to print it.

Unless you're a Ukrainian needing hope or an embarrassed worker at the Kremlin, this feels like non-news. And yet it's such a hot point culturally, that you know it's going to drive discussion regardless. I clicked. I read. I commented. I didn't contribute anything meaningful to the discussion, but I felt the drive to participate, too.

thats a very interesting point of view puplished by the Ukrainian Newspaper Kyivpost

Russia allready lost. They just keep ignoring it