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To: Jeff Hayden who wrote (33721)	10/15/2022 9:18:19 PM
From: Les H	1 Recommendation Recommended By marcher Respond to of 48879

Russia and Ukraine may have agreed on a tentative deal to end the war in April, according to a recent piece in Foreign Affairs. “Russian and Ukrainian negotiators appeared to have tentatively agreed on the outlines of a negotiated interim settlement,” wrote Fiona Hill and Angela Stent. “Russia would withdraw to its position on February 23, when it controlled part of the Donbas region and all of Crimea, and in exchange, Ukraine would promise not to seek NATO membership and instead receive security guarantees from a number of countries.” The news highlights the impact of former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s efforts to stop negotiations, as journalist Branko Marcetic noted on Twitter. The decision to scuttle the deal coincided with Johnson’s April visit to Kyiv, during which he reportedly urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to break off talks with Russia for two key reasons: Putin cannot be negotiated with, and the West isn’t ready for the war to end. responsiblestatecraft.org The number of people dead in Bucha amounted to less than 1 percent of the population and the combatants which leads to the obvious truth that the city had been mostly evacuated before the initial battle in the first two weeks and the counterattack by Kiev. Some people were killed by both sides as a result of the artillery fire as reported. Some were tortured by both sides as informants.

To: Jeff Hayden who wrote (33721)	10/15/2022 9:42:43 PM
From: Les H	2 Recommendations Recommended By fred woodall marcher Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 48879

That was also not the only time the UK and US have intervened in the peace talks between Kiev and Moscow. The US State Department also boasted of not having made one single contact with Russian diplomats in the first six months. washingtonpost.com The war could've been stopped before Russia intervened if Ukraine had agreed to a cessation of the shelling of the Donbass and accepted the security guarantees for the regions and Russia in return for its own security. That proposal was made on February 21 by France and Germany, two of the guarantors of the Minsk treaty, and promptly rejected by Ukraine. There were no battles around Kiev or N. Ukraine that forced Russia to withdraw its forces. When one looks at the reports during that time, there was nothing. According to the Pentagon, Russia only had 20 battalion tactical groups in the North. That's only 12-16 thousand soldiers which is roughly the number of Ukrainian soldiers who are presently defending Bakhmut, a small city of 70 thousand. Taking Kiev was obviously not a goal. Russia starts pulling troops from kiev and redeploys to East Ukraine npr.org