The war in Ukraine turns three and a half years without Russia seems interested in putting an end to fighting. Its main argument in peace negotiations is precisely that victory is just around the corner, something that refutes the few successes harvested by the Russian army in the current battle for Donetsk control.
According to the American press, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, said a week ago in Alaska to his US counterpart, Donald Trump, that Moscow can soon conquer the entire Donbás.
It is also true that the Ukrainian army, weighed by a chronic lack of men, does not have options to recover the occupied land. That is recognized by the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, who anyway refuses to accept the territorial demands of the Kremlin, which would mean a capitulation.
