“If you really want to stop fighting, you need to stop supplying weapons…It will be over within a few weeks. That’s it.” Russian President Putin’s statement in a two-hour long interview with the American journalist Tucker Carlson. Putin has held this belief since the conflict began in February 2022.

Earlier US former President Trump’s suggestion that he could end the Russia-Ukraine war within a day if he returns to the White House again, “If I’m President, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours” and the Ukrainian president described the statement as “very dangerous.” But the man ‘Zelensky’ who should be really talking of peace in the interest of Ukraine’s future by contrast, continues to insist there can be no peace deal that does not see the removal of all Russian forces from landsthey have captured from Ukraine since 2014, including Crimea. So, is peace in the air?

The little-known truth: “The war could have ended in the spring of 2022 if Ukraine had agreed to neutrality. Russia’s goal was to put pressure on us so that we would be neutral. This was the main thing for them: They were ready to end the war if we accepted neutrality, like Finland once did. And for us to make a commitment that we will not join NATO. This is the main thing.” Quoting Arakhamia, who currently is the leader of the ruling party’s faction in the Ukrainian parliament and a top advisor to Zelensky. “After we returned from Istanbul, Boris Johnson visited Kyiv and said that we should not sign anything........

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