Zelensky hung about in Ireland waiting to meet with Witkoff and Kushnar but then decided he wanted Umerov by his side, but then the whole meeting was cancelled, not sure by who.
Umerov has replaced Yermak as the Ukraine peace delegation leader and proved to be just as hardline as Yermak and is not willing or able to offer any concessions to the Americans and Russians at all.
That’s fine, the Ukrainians just aren't ready for peace yet.
And no wonder, as said yesterday, Ukraine is still receiving 1 billion a month, not the 4 billion needed as Ukraine does not actually have an economy of its own but 1 billion a month is not to be sneezed at.
Zelensky’s inner circle charges a 15% err... admin fee for fund redistribution (50 billion out of the 300 billion US aid), so that’s $150,000 million from the 1 billion every month which is still a good earner and is only costing 1000 Ukraine soldiers being fed into the furnace every week to maintain.
But the intriguing thing is that now Kiev has announced that Umerov is going to Miami to meet with Witkoff and Kushnar.
Why? To simply restate Ukraine's entrenched position?
As inferred yesterday the Americans didn’t go to meet Putin to listen to him repeat for the thousandth time Russia’s position.
We know that Zelensky has been begging to meet with Trump again but Trump has refused and Trump has sacked pro-Ukrainian Kellogg.
Trump seems to be fixed to the Wittkoff pro-Russian view, finally recognising that the comedian Zelensky was bullshiting all along.
Does Umerov think he’s going to turn Witkoff’s head? Unlikely.
And what’s Kushnar doing in all this anyway, presumably Trump’s son-in-law is gaining experience sitting at the big table but he’s also there because he’s trusted by Trump, so is Witkoff.
And Trump clearly doesn’t trust anyone in the US state department whose job it actually is to hammer out international agreements.
But whatever, which way now for Putin?
He is not concerned there’s no deal. His army is steadily pushing the Ukrainian army out of their defensive lines, their losses are down to a tenth of the Ukrainian losses.
The Russians are standing back heaving long-range fires, drones, Grads and Fabs, at the Ukrainians burying them in their basement hideouts.
And the recent Ukrainian escalation of attacking international shipping on the Black Sea provides an excellent excuse for the Russian army to continue onto Odessa.
As Putin said yesterday, ‘Ukraine can’t commit acts of piracy if they don’t have a port.’
And finally, the Reuter’s ‘Ukraine’s Band of Brothers’ feature report where Reuters followed 11 new recruits into the Ukrainian army came to an abrupt premature end when there were suddenly none of them left in the Ukrainian army.
“Four are wounded, three are missing, two deserted, one fell ill, and one committed suicide”.
No real surprise to anyone actually paying attention.
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