As Ukrainian officials get ready for fresh peace negotiations that haven’t produced a resolution, Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated one of his main demands: Moscow will capture Ukraine’s Donbas region “by military or other means.
Two days after meeting with a US group headed by special envoy Steve Witkoff in the Kremlin, Putin arrived in New Delhi on Thursday, where Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi would meet him.
According to a Ukrainian source with knowledge of the issue, Ukrainian officials are scheduled to travel to the US on Thursday to discuss a strategy to end Moscow’s war with their American counterparts.
According to Russian state media TASS, Putin stated in an interview with India Today prior to the Modi summit that Russia would “liberate Donbas and Novorossiya in any case by military or other means.
Ukraine’s handover of territory in the Donbas region, which Russia has unlawfully annexed but not yet completely captured, is one of the Kremlin’s main objectives. When Putin annexed the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea in 2014, he revived the name Novorossiya, or New Russia, which had been used historically to refer to regions to the west of the Russian empire.
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