Word is that the Ukrainians were not willing to make any concessions at all which makes you wonder why the Americans bothered with the meeting.
And now the Americans are going to fly to Moscow which you would need to ask why they are bothering with that as well. They could just phone the Russians and say there is no change and save themselves the price of the air ticket.
It must be getting very embarrassing for Trump, having Zelensky and Rubio run rings around him and then having to say to the Russians ‘we thought this time (number 57) it was different’.
The Russians will politely receive the American in Moscow all the while looking at their watch and wondering when the Americans would go back home.
And so nothing will change on the battlefield, the Russians will continue taking more and more territory at a faster and faster rate.
4 oblasts now, then 6, and then 8.
And of course the longer Zelensky can hold out the more of that lovely money he collects.
And the longer Rubio keeps spoiling any peace efforts the more he is endearing himself to the US neocon base.
On the battlefronts the biggest news is that the Russians have made a big 10km out-flanking move to push around to the north of the city of Konstantinovka, thus the city is well on the way to encirclement. Russian troops have already entered the city from the south east.
The holes in the Ukrainian defensive line are getting bigger.
2 videos below both thinking that perhaps NATO should go back and reconsider Putin's draft peace proposal of 17th December 2021.
Which of course talked of the urgent need for security guarantees for Russia, as NATO was setting up camp on Russia’s front doorstep, if a military conflict was to be avoided.
Brutal Negotiations Amidst The Roar Of Artillery And Drones
Scott Ritter: War Has Been Won & Russia Faces a Dilemma
4 Oblasts 6 Oblasts 8 Oblasts 'Neuvorossiya'