Volodymyr Zelenskyy: “It was not the technical problem. It was the will.”

Putin does not want peace talks at the moment, in any form.

We want to end this war as quick as possible. We don’t see now signals from the Russian side that they are ready for this, to end this war. That’s why we have to prepare for the winter.

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.

Russia is trying to cause a blackout in Ukraine – right before winter.