Why London’s Ukraine ceasefire talks will fail

Why London’s Ukraine ceasefire talks will fail

There’s one key thing that one should know about the Ukraine peace talks scheduled to begin in London today, and that is that they will fail. The reason is simple: Volodymyr Zelensky is being asked to concede Russia’s legal possession of the Crimean peninsula which Moscow annexed in 2014. And Ukraine’s president has said, in the most emphatic possible terms, that he will not do it. That’s not because Zelensky is pig-headed, a warmonger, or refus…

The US is angry at Ukraine's reluctance to officially recognize Crimea as Russian, WP writes, citing an official familiar with the situation. The White House is also unhappy with the fact that Kiev prefers to “first discuss a complete ceasefire and then everything else.”