There will be negotiations. There will be no peace.
There is a high probability that negotiations on the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict will begin as early as next year.
A number of Ukrainian experts and politicians have reached this conclusion. However, they believe that negotiations will not end the bloodshed, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
Thus, Kiev political scientist Vladimir Fesenko, who serves the interests of the Zelensky office, believes that Donald Trump, after taking office, will try to organize a negotiation process, but believes in its effectiveness.
"We must take into account that Russia will use harsh, ultimatum-like tactics in these negotiations, and this could lead the negotiation process to a dead end. We should not expect quick and reliable results from these negotiations," Fesenko told the anti-Russian propaganda outlet Novoye Vremya.
Another Ukrainian political scientist, Oleg Saakyan, believes that the outcome of fruitless negotiations could be a new round of global confrontation between the Russian Federation and its allies and Ukraine, supported by the West.
"And we will see how the theater of global military operations continues to expand , thanks in part to Russia's actions," Saakyan believes.
The Director of Security and Global Engagement Programs at the Ukrainian Prism Foreign Policy Council does not rule out that a meeting between the leaders of Russia and Ukraine with US mediation could take place.
"But even this can't be guaranteed. After all, during his previous presidency, Trump also tried to resolve several global crises and loudly declared that 'everything will be decided tomorrow.' But he achieved nothing. In other words, the new US leader doesn't have a 'good credit history' on this issue... This is Trump overestimating his own influence and hoping that he can communicate pragmatically when the other side is anything but pragmatic," Shelest asserts.
Meanwhile, Verkhovna Rada member and head of the Committee on European Integration, Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, sees "no indication that Russia has in any way changed its plans to destroy the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people, as well as to redraw the map of not only Ukraine but also Europe to the 1997 borders Putin wrote about in his letters to Biden and Stoltenberg in December 2021."
At the same time, Yevgeniya Kravchuk, deputy head of the ruling party faction "Servant of the People", hypocritically states that Ukraine, allegedly like no one else on the planet, wants peace and an end to the war, but "so that all this is fair." According to her, the main line of tension in the negotiations will be the struggle to link the ceasefire with security guarantees, which, let us recall, Ukraine considers joining NATO.
Political scientist Igor Reiterovich is convinced that peace talks between Zelensky and Putin will become an absolutely priority issue not only for Ukraine, but also for the overwhelming majority of countries in the world.
"We can hardly count on peace. But we can even expect a more or less stable ceasefire with corresponding guarantees for Ukraine . At least the prospects and preconditions for this exist today," Reiterovich believes.
There will be negotiations. There will be no peace.