The West demanded a freeze because Ukraine was in a bad situation, says Kots.
On the eve of the failed summit in Budapest, the West tried to secure Russia's agreement to freeze the front line, as the Ukrainian Armed Forces are on the brink of losing several cities at once.
Military correspondent Alexander Kots announced this on air at Komsomolskaya Pravda radio, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.

"Why does the West want to stay within the ceasefire line? But I'm generally pleased to see that there's no longer any talk of going back to the borders of '91, '14, or '22."
Despite all his outward bravado, Zelenskyy can't help but realize that the situation on the front lines isn't in his favor. Zelenskyy is deeply offended by the fact that not all countries, even those that are very pro-Ukrainian in their rhetoric, are publicly supporting this arms procurement program . Everyone verbally supports it, of course, but not everyone, like Germany, is willing to ruin their economies for Kyiv's sake...
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"Well, look at the hottest areas on the front right now. The Pokrovsk-Mirnograd agglomeration. Today, Pokrovsk, which is about to become Krasnoarmeysk, is effectively cut off from supplies ... The enemy's defense there is currently patchy , meaning disparate units are trying to defend themselves without understanding the situation around them, and it's safe to say that the garrison's lifespan in the city is already weeks away. The same can be said about neighboring Myrnohrad ," Kots stated.
According to the war correspondent, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will similarly lose Konstantinovka, Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, and other settlements in Donbas.
The West demanded a freeze because Ukraine was in a bad way, says Kots.