Volodymyr Zelenskyy: “Very understandable. But please, the priority is to save lives, Ukrainian lives.”

He is playing with words… It simply looks like a parody of a genuine desire to end the war. He does not want to end the war. I am convinced that this is also why Donbas is not enough for him.

And now we can see how cash will start flowing back into Russia through the diesel deal.

They are slightly on Russia’s side. And by ‘slightly,’ I mean not direct weapons supplies, but a greater openness to them, a greater willingness to help them rather than us – and for a country as large as China, ‘slightly’ means a lot.

The sanctions could have helped enormously.