It\u2019s honestly kind of hard to even process the timing of all this. Like, just when diplomats are sitting in the UAE for the second day of these so-called \u201cpeace talks\u201d, Russia is out there firing missiles into Ukraine\u2019s biggest cities. It\u2019s just so weird, like two completely different scenes going on at the same time, guys in suits shaking hands in Abu Dhabi, and meanwhile Kyiv and Kharkiv are actually shaking from blasts.<\/p>\n
According to the latest reports, at least one person was killed in the overnight attacks. It wasn\u2019t a small strike either. The officials are saying Russia launched a massive wave of ballistic missiles and hundreds of drones. The targets are the same as they always seem to be energy grids and regular people\u2019s homes.<\/p>\n
In Kharkiv, it sounds particularly bad. A maternity ward got hit, some dorm where displaced people were staying too, and even a hospital. And now Chernihiv is apparently completely out of power. The Foreign Minister, Andriy Sybiha, didn\u2019t hold back on X (Twitter). He pointed out the cynicism of Putin ordering a \u201cbrutal massive missile strike\u201d exactly when the delegations are supposed to be finding a way out of this war. As he put it, those missiles didn\u2019t just hit people, they hit the negotiation table.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the meetings in Abu Dhabi are dragging into a second day. This is the big US-led push, involving Trump\u2019s newly established organization which invited Putin to participate. But it seems like they are hitting a wall. The main stumbling block is still territory. Moscow keeps insisting on claims that Ukraine just flat-out rejects, specifically, Russia wants troops to pull back even from parts of the Donbas that Ukraine still controls.<\/p>\n
Ukraine\u2019s chief negotiator Rustem Umerov says they are talking about the \u201cparameters\u201d for ending the war, but it\u2019s hard to see how that works when the other side is bombing maternity wards. Sybiha said it proves Putin belongs in a tribunal dock, not on a peace board. It\u2019s a mess. The air defense teams are doing incredible work intercepting what they can, but with another terrible winter setting in, the gap between the \u201cpeace process\u201d and the reality on the ground feels massive.<\/p>\n
Though the statements for the mentions are inclined with Ukraine, it do not seems that Russia and it\u2019s planning is even bothered or affected with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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