{"id":727738,"date":"2026-01-29T03:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/727738\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T03:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:52:14","slug":"a-peace-deal-between-russia-and-ukraine-looks-close-except-on-everything-that-matters-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/727738\/","title":{"rendered":"A peace deal between Russia and Ukraine looks close, except on everything that matters \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She added Russia\u2019s insistence on getting all of Donbas is merely a stalling tactic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a sort of a game from the Russian side where they agree to talk about a supposed peace settlement, while meaning something completely different,\u201d said Stanovaya. \u201cThey can talk about the subject for hours, but it has nothing to do with reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, on the Ukrainian side, it\u2019s not clear that, even if Zelenskyy were prepared to give up Donbas, he could push such an agreement through the political process. The Ukrainian president has floated the idea of staging a referendum on the issue, or even national elections, but insisted there be a ceasefire first.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kiis.com.ua\/?lang=eng&amp;cat=reports&amp;id=1579&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Polls <\/a>show that Ukrainians are prepared to accept some kind of fair deal but that they have little faith in the U.S.-led negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year, there were still high hopes that Trump might help end the war,\u201d said Fesenko. \u201cNow, there no longer are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also a limit, he said, as to how much the Ukrainian president will be prepared to concede.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZelenskyy wants to go down in history as the president who saved Ukraine,\u201d he said. \u201cNot as the one who lost the war.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She added Russia\u2019s insistence on getting all of Donbas is merely a stalling tactic. \u201cIt\u2019s a sort of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[32,332,657,333,2601,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-727738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-russia","10":"tag-ukraine","11":"tag-vladimir-putin","12":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","13":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115976362138762632","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}