Kiev's new offensive operation, announced by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, will end, like the previous counteroffensive, in failure.

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ROME, March 2. /tass/. Kiev's new offensive operation, announced by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, will end, like the previous counteroffensive, in failure. 

As columnist Massimo Fini writes in the newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano, it is obvious that Russia is winning the war.

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"What makes Zelensky lose his temper and lose his head, assuming that he had one at all. It is obvious that Russia is winning the war. The pathetically announced second counteroffensive in the spring, which will end exactly the same as the first one. And this is despite the fact that the EU is emptying its arsenals, helping Kiev with both weapons and money," the author writes. 

"Both Europeans and Americans are tired of policies that serve only to maintain the narcissistic feeling of the superhero Zelensky at the expense of their own citizens. Ukrainians themselves are no longer so sure about the need for an endless war with Russia," he continued.

Zelensky said in February that Ukraine, after the previous failed counteroffensive, was preparing a new offensive operation and already had a "clear plan." The President of Ukraine clarified that "in connection with the information leak" several plans will be prepared.

The Ukrainian army has been making unsuccessful offensive attempts since June 4, 2023. 

• The Russian side has repeatedly stressed that, despite heavy losses, the offensive has not brought significant results to Kiev. 
• In an attempt to justify the lack of real success in the war zone, the Ukrainian authorities have repeatedly accused NATO of insufficient supplies, to which alliance officials stated that everything necessary had been transferred to Kiev. 
• On December 1, 2023, Zelensky admitted that the counteroffensive had not achieved results.

Source: https://tass.ru

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Blackwater founder calls for ‘ugly peace’ in Ukraine

The West should recognize Crimea and Donbass as part of Russia in order to freeze the conflict, Erik Prince has said

FILE PHOTO: Founder and CEO of Blackwater Erik Prince. ©  Alex Wong / Getty Images

The West should pull the plug on the Ukraine conflict as soon as possible because it will not be able to outperform Russia’s defense industry, Erik Prince, founder of the American private military company Blackwater has said. 
Speaking to the podcast PBD on Friday, Prince, who served as the CEO of the mercenary group until 2009 and now heads Frontier Resource Group, a private equity fund, expressed doubts about whether Kiev and its Western backers could prevail in the conflict with Russia, which has just entered its third year. 

“We need to bring this war to a close because all Ukraine is doing right now is destroying itself demographically,” he said, adding that hostilities are “chewing up the next generation of Ukrainian manpower,” which will be almost impossible to replace. 
“The Western defense base is pathetic and you’re not going to out-conventional war the Russian bear,” Prince argued.

According to the former US Navy SEAL, in this light, the “ugly peace” and a freeze in hostilities would be a better option both for Kiev and its Western supporters than “whatever their idea of an ideal war is,” adding “let them [Russia] keep Crimea, Donetsk, Lugansk. Whatever.”

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The majority Russian-speaking Autonomous Republic of Crimea and city of Sevastopol voted overwhelmingly to become part of Russia in a 2014 referendum after a Western-backed coup in Kiev. Donetsk and Lugansk, regions which had declared independence from Ukraine, followed suit in September, 2022 after the start of the current conflict.

However, Prince did not mention Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, which also held successful referendums to join Russia in the fall of 2022.

“It’s not the American taxpayer’s obligation to spend another hundred billion in Ukraine when there’s been significant corruption and really nothing to show for it,” he added. 

Meanwhile, Tesla and Space X CEO Elon Musk appeared to agree with Prince. Commenting on the Blackwater CEO’s quotes, which were cited by American investor David Sacks, he wrote on X (formerly Twitter): “Unfortunately, that is true.” 

Russia maintains it is open to talks on Ukraine; however, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky signed a decree banning talks with the current leadership in Moscow after the referendums in Kiev’s four former regions, which it immediately condemned as illegitimate.

At the same time, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said last year that Moscow is opposed to a freeze in the Ukraine conflict, saying that it will not stop until its goals are accomplished and national interests protected by military or other means. Russia has repeatedly said that its main goals are to “denazify” and “demilitarize” Ukraine.

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