Putin ‘would face a revolt' if he halted war machine
Hopes that President Putin will agree to voluntarily end Russia's invasion of Ukraine as a result of peace negotiations are a 'big illusion', a top adviser to President Zelensky has said.
'It is impossible to hold rational talks with Russia,' Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior member of Zelensky's team in Kyiv since 2020, told The Times.
Russia 'cannot, does not want to and will not' stop fighting in Ukraine unless it is forced to by economic sanctions and strikes on its military infrastructure, Podolyak said. 'All the talk about how it is possible to have negotiations with Russia and to agree on something pragmatically and rationally are just an illusion, one big illusion.'
His comments come after senior members of President Trump's administration signalled that talks
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