“Something happened to Vladimir Putin. He completely went crazy! ” Donald Trump said after the last escalation of Russian bombing in Ukrainian cities. The Kremlin leader does not feel the pressure of the United States, and although he does not want to break bridges with the US president, he is still convinced that he can win the war and is not going to stop.
Over the past three nights, Russia began three waves of mass air attacks, which left at least 12 dead and 75 wounded. In the early hours of Monday, the Russian army sent a new record of drones, 355, in addition to nine cruise missiles against the regions of Kyiv, Cherkasy, Odessa, Dzhmelnitsky and Yarkava, according to the Ukrainian authorities.
The Kremlin did not want to argue with Trump, despite the fact that he called Putin “crazy.” Its representative, Dmitry Peskov, accused the American president’s reaction to “emotional overload” as a result of the tension of negotiations. In addition, he again insisted on thanking efforts on the mediation of the White House to put an end to the conflict.
Criticism of attacks, the representative replied: “President Putin makes the necessary decisions to guarantee the country’s security.” In addition, this guarantees that Russian explosions against “military facilities” are a reaction to the launch of Ukrainian drones against the Russian “peaceful infrastructure”, although in the last three nights, the unmanned planes of Moscow have influenced civil buildings.
Trump declared unexpected contrasts, as in previous cases from the moment the negotiations began, with their actions. Last Monday, after talking on the phone with Putin, he seemed to distance himself from the resolution of the conflict, satisfied with the alleged location of both parties.
After the despair of Volodimir Zelensky and his European allies, after this conversation Trump decided not to remove sanctions against Russia. At the same time, he asked them to stop increasing the demand for high temperature within the framework of the term “unconditional”, since the Kremlin worked under their conditions for a truce.
These conditions, which should be included in the Memorandum of the World, were the last trick of the Russian leader who would have received time appearing before the American president as someone favorable for the agreement. This Monday Dmitry Peskov gave again when he was asked when this document was ready.
According to him Wall Street JournalIt was the US president himself, who admitted to European leaders, Zelensky, who did not believe that Putin intends to reach an agreement because he saw how he convinced him to win the war. However, he did not consider the approval of new sanctions before Monday, when, to the questions of the journalist, he said that he appreciates this “absolutely”.
In his message of social truth this Sunday, Trump did not miss the reason, in addition to condemning Russian attacks, he again criticizes Zelensky. The White House leader believes that with his statements on weekends they regretted the US passivity, the Ukrainian president “does not provide any benefit to his country.” According to Trump, “everything that comes out of his mouth causes problems” and “it is better to stop”.
But Zelensky insists on asking for more pressure on Putin. “Only a feeling of complete impunity can allow Russia to carry out these attacks and continue to increase their value,” he wrote in his social networks after the last Russian bombardment. His proposal “freeze Russian finances and stop oil sales.”
For experts, Trump’s inaction in the face of attempts to delay Russia is gasoline for Putin and his military ambitions. Andrei Kozirev, the Prime Minister of Foreign Affairs in post -Soviet Russia, writes in X: “Putting only with words, and not with facts, Putin perceives the weakness of the West and leads him to the doubling of his aggression to Ukraine, which is becoming more and more barbaric.”
An analyst close to the Kremlin Mikhail Rostovsky explains in Moscow Komsomols This “Moscow does not want to lose Trump,” but “this desire is clearly in the background with priority: a convincing victory in Ukraine.” Thus, he says: “Everything else disappears” and predicts that the most believable is that the war continues.
Russian threat to Sumi
Last week, the Kremlin accurately expressed a desire to continue to fight until they achieve their goals and conquer more territories than he already controls. At first he was the head of the Russian delegation in the conversations of Istanbul of May 16, Vladimir Medinski, who, according to several media, threatened Ukrainian negotiation participants, occupying the regions of Sumi and Yarkov if Kyiv’s troops did not withdraw from four regions annexed by Moskova.
Then, Putin himself joked from Kursk with the opportunity to conquer the neighboring region of Sumi, and on Friday he turned a joke into reality, announcing the creation of a security zone along the border between the two countries, that is, north of Donbas, in Sumy and Yarkava.
According to Deepstate, Russia managed to install itself in the SUMI section, which, according to the Russian average agent, is 60 square kilometers. “For a long time, the Sumi region can be perceived as a gray zone (without control of any armies), because Ukrainian troops managed to restrain the enemy,” the representatives of this project report, which adds that Russian soldiers receive progress at the expense of many victims.
Antiire defense Lack
The interest of Zelenski is correct, not only for the achievements of the Russian army on the field, but also to increase the capabilities of weapons of Moscow and the lack of defensive accessories of Kyiv.
As explained Economist Of the sources from the Ukrainian government, Russia can now have about 500 ballistic missiles, which is the most difficult to protect against anti -air force. Only the American patriots system is effective in the face of this type of missiles, and Ukraine has eight batteries, although some of them are under repair.
Last Tuesday from the Senate of the United States, Secretary of State Marco Rubio admitted that they had problems with the provision of patriotic systems to Ukraine. “Honestly, we don’t have it. The US is looking for batteries of patriots to be able to transfer them from other NATO countries to Ukrainian hands, ”Rubio said, and regrets that not a single country is ready to abandon this weapons.
In addition, as a European source indicates Washington PostThe Trump administration is afraid to announce the excellent sending of patriots missiles to Ukraine “NOT Anger Putin.” From his point of view, the White House fears that this can jeopardize peaceful conversations.
The United States cannot quickly produce new patriotic systems. Economist It establishes the production of a company responsible for the distribution of this arsenal of 650 units per year, while the production of Russian missiles will approach 750. In addition, to demolish the ballistic missile, two protective missiles are usually needed, which further exacerbates the deficit.
And another element that complicates the point of view of Kiva: according to Yuri Ignat, a representative of the command of Ukrainian air forces, Russia modernized ballistic missiles, and this complicates the functioning of patriots.
I am Mond He also warns of the shortage of “critics” of protective missiles for the SAMP-T system made by France and Italy. According to the Ukrainian source in this newspaper, Kyiv did not receive any of these shells for a year and a half.
On this Monday, however, Germany confirmed that Ukraine has permission to use its weapons against Russian territory. At the end of 2024, the United States, Great Britain and France already authorized the Ukrainian army to attack military targets in the Russian rear, and Foreign Minister Friedrich Merza explained that Germany joined this list. From Moscow, Peskov has already replied that these types of decisions “against the desires to achieve a political agreement.”
Other problems of the Ukrainian army are to repel more and more massive drones. Yes, as the British newspaper publishes, before Russia has produced about 300 apartments for Iranian miners a month, now Ukrainian intelligence believes that it is able to generate this amount in less than three days, and that its goal is to produce 500 daily.
Oleksandr Musienko, the military of the Ukrainian land defense forces, predicts RBC in Ukraine that Russian bases can make mass attacks from drones three or four times a week. According to Musiko, the supply volume increased on average from 50 to 80 per day, at least from 150 to 200 years.
Russia excludes the Vatican
At the moment, Russia and Ukraine do not even agree what the headquarters of the next round of conversations should be. Last Friday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov abandoned the Vatican, an option that Trump had airy. For the minister, it would be “little elegant” to resolve the conflict between the two Orthodox countries at the headquarters of the Catholic Church.
Russian government sources indicate the agency Reuters This, in addition, is other inconvenience. For example, the fact that the Vatican is surrounded by such a country, such as Italy, a member of NATO and the European Union, and that many Russian representatives cannot fly there from Western restrictions.
For the Kremlin, it would be your favorite option to repeat in Turki, although there are other options, such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar or Oman. According to the Office of Zelensky, Switzerland also confirmed its readiness to hold “future dedicated meetings to treat a peaceful solution” of war in Ukraine.