A Ukrainian serviceman holds the portrait of the Hospitallers Medical Battalion volunteer and Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr ‘Bohush’ Oliynyk at his funeral in Kyiv yesterday. Photo: Reuters
A Ukrainian serviceman holds the portrait of the Hospitallers Medical Battalion volunteer and Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr ‘Bohush’ Oliynyk at his funeral in Kyiv yesterday. Photo: Reuters
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Russia’s time-wasting and new demands over a ceasefire in Ukraine suit Kyiv just fine – the delays help build a non-American alliance and mean it can drive on with campaigns where it’s dominant in a war that it can win.
Vladimir Putin’s latest demand is that Russia’s agricultural sector be allowed to use the Swift banking system as a reward for a ceasefire in the Black Sea, allowing it to move its grain and other farming exports.