Russian dictator unlikely to negotiate with Ukraine, regardless of US election outcome – CNN

It is doubtful that Vladimir Putin, the dictator of the Russian Federation, will agree to hold talks with Ukraine. The outcome of the United States election is unlikely to impact this decision.

CNN reports this.

According to the publication, if elected, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris will largely continue the policy of the current President Joe Biden's administration, which supported Ukraine.

Taking a radically different position, former President Donald Trump suggested that he would end support for Kyiv's military efforts and declared that he could settle the war "in one day."

Moreover, the terms of the peace plan put forward by his vice-presidential candidate, J.D. Vance, are strikingly similar to Putin's wish list.

CNN notes that American politics is at a crossroads, but this will not necessarily lead to a turning point in the peace talks.

That's because there is no indication that Moscow is ready to sit down at the negotiating table, regardless of who is following in the White House.

In addition, experts assert that the war's magnitude exceeds the possibility of straightforward negotiations solely between Moscow and Kyiv. They contend this is a larger and more complex conflict involving Russia and the Western world.

For Putin, "Ukraine is just a means to an end, and the end is to further limit US influence in international affairs," said John Lough, an associate fellow in the Russia and Eurasia Program at the London think tank Chatham House.

In the latest polls, the gap between Harris and Trump decreased by one percentage point in a week.

The presidential elections in the USA will be held on November 5.

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As experts of the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) point out, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin demonstrates his disinterest in a negotiated ceasefire. He continues to seek to destroy Ukrainian statehood.

It should be noted that Russian leader Vladimir Putin said at the BRICS summit that the Turkish representative at the September session of the UN General Assembly in New York received an offer from Ukraine for the Russian Federation. He passed this information on to the Kremlin.

It is worth noting that this is not the first time that Putin and his representatives have made statements in which Russia is portrayed as ready for negotiations to settle the war in Ukraine, which are not taking place because Kyiv allegedly does not want it.

In fact, Putin demands:

• Kyiv's refusal to join NATO,
• and international recognition of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson regions, and Crimea as Russian territories.

In his turn, Zelensky, in response to the proposal of an alleged peaceful resolution of the war by the leader of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, said that such conditions are an ultimatum that cannot be trusted. The head of state also compared Putin's actions with the leader of Nazi Germany, Hitler.