RT interview: “'Zelensky won’t be around long enough for his opinions to matter' — Professor Gilbert Doctorow”
Yesterday evening I gave an interview to RT which focused on the outcome of the negotiations in Istanbul earlier in the day between Russian and Ukrainian delegations. Those talks ended in a major achievement with respect to exchange of ailing prisoners of war, to POWs under age 25 and to exchange of the bodies of those who fell in enemy territory and were left behind by their comrades. These exchanges will bring great joy to the relatives of the live POWs and will bring closure and financial compensation to the relatives of the fallen. However, as regards the main reason for the parleys, exchange of memoranda on the respective Ukrainian and Russian visions of the end-game and a comprehensive peace treaty, what we know of the memoranda indicates that the sides are very far apart. In essence, each of the warring parties is demanding that the other side capitulate.
The discussion also touched upon the Ukrainian drone attack against military airports across the Russian Federation on Sunday, which raises many questions, including the involvement of British MI6 and America’s CIA in the planning and possibly in the execution of the attack.
There is here a good deal of material in this interview which readers will find builds upon my earlier essays using most recently released information about the events in question.