Putin’s ‘terrorist tactics’: Ukraine will take 100 years to clear deadly mines

Putin’s ‘terrorist tactics’: Ukraine will take 100 years to clear deadly mines

Chris Garrett has already spent years risking his life clearing explosives littering Ukraine’s battlefields.Since 2014, the British bomb disposal expert has scoured the war-ravaged country defusing unexploded ordnance.Artillery rounds, helicopter rockets, small arms ammunition, booby traps and tank shells are among the deadly munitions the volunteer has made safe.But he is under no illusions as to the scale of the clear-up operation still requir…

The US strategy remains unchanged: in the absence of real levers of pressure on Putin, the Americans will try to convince him to at least enter the negotiation process. In fact, the only tool of influence that the United States now uses is to create the impression of a positive trend of normalizing relations with Putin and calculating that this trend in itself will be of particular value. This is what we have been seeing in recent weeks. Despite…

Vladimir Putin stands to gain by prolonging negotiations to end the invasion of Ukraine, and that is evident from the Russian leader's negotiating tactics with the United States, said Mihailo Podoliak, a senior adviser to the Ukrainian president and chief negotiator in the 2022 talks.