Joshua Yaffa on What’s Next for Ukraine
The New Yorker Radio Hour
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The Harkov Counter-Offensive and Ukraine's Recession
CNN's John Defterios says the minimum Putin would accept to come to real negotiations is that he gets to keep Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. On the other hand, on the Ukrainian side, it seems unanimous as a position that Ukraine will not accept Russian presence in any part of Ukraine at all,. That's certainly the mood right now; I don't think neither the Ukrainian people nor the Ukrainian political leadership will agree to anything less than that. If this Harkov counter-offensive in some months turns out to have been a one-off success, perhaps that mood could shift toward some sort of willingness to consider a negotiated settlement.
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