THE KREMLIN SAYS IT STILL EXPECTS VICTORY, NOT COMPROMISE
Yuri Ushakov, a senior aide to Vladimir Putin, says Moscow expects “victory” and the achievement of its own objectives rather than the implementation of agreements reportedly discussed during the Putin–Trump meeting in Anchorage.
Ushakov claimed that while one side continues to adhere to the understandings reached in Anchorage, the other has failed to fulfill its commitments.
“Currently, one side continues to adhere to the agreements discussed in Anchorage, while the other side, it appears — and this can now be said — has proved unable to complete its part of the path and implement the agreements,” he stated.
The comments are notable because they reveal what many observers have long argued: that despite periodic discussions of negotiations, the Kremlin continues to view the war through the lens of achieving its strategic objectives.
For Ukraine and its supporters, statements like these reinforce concerns that Moscow still sees military success, rather than compromise, as the path to ending the conflict.
Four years into the war, the rhetoric coming from the Kremlin suggests that Russia continues to believe its goals can still be achieved — even as the battlefield, the economy, and the international environment become increasingly challenging.