Ukraine: rumours and ceasefires

Don’t expect anything to happen on this front before November. If Donald Trump loses the U.S. election, Russia might be willing to sign a deal that gives them a quarter of the country, but Ukraine would want more territory back before negotiating a ceasefire.

Ukraine’s top commander General Oleksandr Syrskyi said that Ukraine now controls 1,000 square kilometres of Russian territory. That may be true, but it doesn’t count for much because Ukraine’s total territory is more than 17 million square kilometres, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

August 14, 2024

LONDON, U.K.—Ukraine’s major cross-border attack into Russia's Kursk region last week has triggered the usual claims and counter-claims. First, former Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu said that Russia had taken 420 square kilometres of territory from Ukrainian forc...

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