Putin: NO Ukraine NATO Ever, Russia Win 2025; No EU Troops Ukraine; Huge Strike, Pokrovsk Disaster (Alexander Mercouris)

Russia simply cannot allow Ukraine to be independent with ties to the West because it invites a future conflict. Any deal will necessarily mean the demilitarisation and de-Nazification of Ukraine along with their lost areas of Crimea and the Donbas, and probably Odessa.

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, December 28, 2024.]