Author: Mingyue
"Everything in the world is like a new chess game." Since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, it has been developing in twists and turns. Recently Putin has released three major signals, which seem to be against Ukraine. made major concessions, especially the voluntary withdrawal of Russian troops from Snake Island, which immediately caused a surge of emotion in the entire West. It was believed that Ukraine had achieved a major "strategic victory." Russia and Ukraine seemed to be not far away from the armistice. Today we will talk about these things in detail.
The first big signal released by Putin: Russian troops took the initiative to withdraw from Snake Island.
According to Russian reports, the Russian army has voluntarily evacuated from Snake Island "out of goodwill" in recent days. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Russian army voluntarily evacuated from Snake Island. On the one hand, it does not want to blame the West, and put the blame for "causing the food crisis" on Russia. After the Russian army evacuates Snake Island, Ukraine can unimpededly export food to other parts of the world. On the other hand, although the strategic location of Snake Island is relatively important, it is indeed very useless for the Russian army because of its characteristics of being easy to attack, difficult to defend, small in area, and lacking in resources. If a large force is stationed in it, it will suffer heavy losses from artillery bombardment by the Ukrainian army, and the logistics supply pressure is also great.
From a diplomatic perspective, it is indeed possible that Putin is releasing his goodwill and making concessions, hoping to ease relations with Ukraine and lay some prerequisites for subsequent negotiations.
But the same thing is completely different in the eyes of Western countries and Zelensky. After the Russian army withdrew from Snake Island, Zelensky was very excited and directly stated that this was the defeat of the Russian army under the "Ukrainian army's counterattack". The Ukrainian army was invincible and would eventually regain all its lost ground. The West is also busy echoing, saying that this is a "strategic victory" achieved by Ukraine. Johnson believes that this shows that the Ukrainian army has the ability to "repulse the Russian army" to counterattack. In short, it is one sentence: victory is in sight! Western countries should quickly provide money and weapons! For those who don’t know, you may think that Ukraine is about to defeat Moscow .
All in all, Ukraine, which has been losing consecutive battles, is really eager for a victory, so it exaggerates the Russian army's active withdrawal as a great victory for the Ukrainian army, ignoring the goodwill signal sent by Putin. If Zelensky does not realize it, I am afraid he will only miss an important opportunity in vain.
The second biggest signal released by Putin: the exchange of prisoners of war with Ukraine.
According to relevant reports from Russia, Russia and Ukraine recently organized and implemented a prisoner exchange of 144 people. One very important detail is that among the released Ukrainian prisoners of war, nearly a hundred were from the Mariupol Steel Plant, and nearly fifty were members of the Azov Battalion. Obviously, the Russian side showed full sincerity in this prisoner exchange, and at the same time it also sent an important signal to the Uzbek side: everything can be done and negotiated, and continuing to fight will benefit no one.
The third major signal released by Putin: There is no strong opposition to Finland Sweden's joining NATO .
Recently, due to the sudden change in attitude of Türkiye , Finland and Sweden have no resistance to their plans to join NATO, and it is estimated that it will become a reality soon. In this regard, Russia's attitude is intriguing. Putin directly stated that as long as the two countries do not deploy NATO troops and military facilities within their own territories, they can join if they want. It does not pose much of a threat to Russia.
Obviously, this is another major concession made by Putin. Although this decision feels somewhat helpless, the fundamental reason is that Russia is unwilling to further escalate the war and involve the entire Europe and even NATO in the conflict. Putin is also using this to show that he is actually willing to resolve problems and disputes with the West through dialogue.
All in all, Russia and Putin have indeed shown considerable sincerity, and Ukraine seems to have become a little enlightened recently. asked the Indonesian President to give to Kiev when he visited Putin sent a message, and the Indonesian president later expressed that he was very willing to assist the leaders of Russia and Ukraine in communicating, hoping to play a positive role. It is obvious that Indonesia is now acting as an "icebreaker" between Russia and Ukraine, reopening the channel for high-level communication between the two sides, which may bring about a major turning point in the situation between Russia and Ukraine.
In the end, it’s the same sentence. No matter who wins in the end in a regional conflict or war, the real losers are countless ordinary people. I still hope that Zelensky can show greater sincerity and truly promote the early end of the situation between Russia and Ukraine, so that countless Ukrainian people can live in peace and tranquility.
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