From: New Voice of Ukraine by Ivan YakovinaNV journalist
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has put forward a series of demands to Kyiv, after fulfilling which he declares Russia would be ready to sign a comprehensive peace with Ukraine.
The demands, essentially, are as follows: you must surrender and give me everything I want, lift the sanctions against me, and for that, so be it, I’ll turn the tragic page and agree to build normal relations with you. Of course, he was told to go to hell with these proposals.
The thing is that the other day the United States introduced sanctions against Russian banks and the Moscow Stock Exchange, prohibiting them from trading in the U.S. dollar and introducing secondary sanctions against foreign companies and individuals who help Moscow bypass Western sanctions. Altogether, this threatens Russia’s foreign trade arrangements it built since 2022.
The entire system of Russia’s military economy, built in one way or another on purchases of all kinds of components and equipment and sales of oil and petroleum products on world markets, is now under threat of destruction. I said that even in such a serious situation as the demise of the entire Russia’s foreign trade system, which is already in the offing, this isn’t the worst news yet. Russia may face much more serious problems.
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