
Ukraine is under heavy pressure from intense waves of Russian attacks, despite promises of more weapons from Germany and the USA. Donald Trump's designated special envoy for Ukraine, General Keith Kellogg, has a plan to bring Ukraine and Russia to the negotiating table but will Vladimir Putin even consider it? President Volodymyr Zelenskyy may have to pay a high price for peace, especially if he wants to get the NATO protection he hopes for by temporarily giving up some territories…
In the video Deutsche Welle reporters ask about a possible deal with Vladimir Putin at the expense of Ukraine, and their guests are Rafael Loss, European Council on Foreign Relations, ECFR, the military expert Thomas Wiegold and Marina Miron, King’s College London. The question can be important because the Vladimir Putin's and his people's delirium can make the war become global and nuclear.
The video chapters are:
- 01:00 Introduction of guests
- 01:45 Current state of the war: Ukraine is short on troops
- 02:45 Russia faces high losses but can still absorb them
- 03:20 Russia may deploy troops to Syria, weakening its position in the war against Ukraine
- 04:46 Both sides are suffering substantially
- 08:00 Freezing frontlines has not solved armed conflict in the past
- 10:20 Russia wouldn’t accept buffer zones between Russia and Ukraine
- 10:45 Ukraine doesn’t currently fulfill the criteria to join NATO
- 12:30 Germany doesn’t support NATO membership for a country at war
- 13:00 NATO is not prepared to deploy peacekeeping troops to the Russian border
- 14:30 If Europe doesn’t solve the problem, Russia may meddle in European affairs
- 15:20 The Ukrainian population is getting tired of the war, polls show
- 16:45 What happens if the war continues?
- 17:35 Elections in Germany might change the German stance
- 18:40 Europe has not boosted the military industry as required
- 19:15 France and Germany in crisis means trouble for Ukraine
- 21:10 The economy in Russia is deteriorating, risking the financing of the war
- 22:15 Europe can’t produce enough armaments for Ukraine
- 23:10 The sanctions against Russia don’t work; Russia is still selling oil
- 25:00 If the West hadn’t implemented sanctions, Russia would be even stronger today