Reuters reports that Putin is increasingly worried about Russia's overheating economy and believes key war goals have already been met, sparking hopes for a peace deal. Trump urges Putin to make a deal, threatening new sanctions if he doesn't. While the Kremlin downplays Trump's remarks, experts remain skeptical about Putin's willingness to compromise.
While skepticism remains high that a lasting peace agreement can be reached – since taking office, Mr. Trump has already adjusted his targeted time frame for ending the war to within 100 days from “in 24 hours” – Thursday saw the first real hint from Moscow that Russian PresidentCiting five confidential sources, Reuters reported Thursday that Mr. Putin was “increasingly worried” about the state of Russia’s overheating economy and believes key war goals have already been met.
Mr. Trump said on Thursday that peace efforts were now “hopefully under way,” but gave no details. “It’s so important to get that done. That is an absolute killing field ... it’s time to end it,” he said in a live video address to the World Economic Forum in Davos. Experts on Russian politics, however, were skeptical that the Reuters report represented a significant change in Mr. Putin’s thinking. Tatiana Stanovaya, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, said that it was “fundamentally flawed” to expect that economic concerns would persuade the long-ruling Kremlin boss to accept any kind of compromise in Ukraine.“No matter the economic situation, Putin will persist in seeking to end the war on Russian terms.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that a U.S.-brokered peace deal between Russia and Ukraine “will require concessions from every party engaged in those conversations.”
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