{"id":4889,"date":"2022-04-06T10:07:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T14:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/stillmanexchange\/?p=4889"},"modified":"2022-04-06T10:56:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T14:56:25","slug":"russia-ukraine-negotiations-continue-as-biden-speaks-in-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/stillmanexchange\/2022\/04\/06\/russia-ukraine-negotiations-continue-as-biden-speaks-in-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Ukraine Negotiations Continue as Biden Speaks in Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Morano<\/strong>
\nInternational\/U.S. News Editor<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Russia has announced a significant move in the war with Ukraine during a set of key talks. Representatives and negotiators from both countries met in Istanbul on March 29 where it was announced that Russia will \u201cfundamentally cut back\u201d their military activities near the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. This move, according to Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin, is meant to increase trust between the two countries as they try to work towards peace talks. The Ukrainian delegation had also stated that it would be willing to declare itself neutral and to have its security guaranteed by a number of different nations. One Ukrainian negotiator, David Arakhamia, said that a meeting between the Ukrainian and Russian presidents is still on the table, but \u201cfull peace\u201d across Ukraine must be present in order to do so. Mevlut Cavusoglu, Foreign Minister of Turkey, praised these talks as \u201cmost significant progress\u201d since the war started.<\/p>\n

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks before the Russian and Ukrainain delegations (Photo courtesy of Al Jazeera)<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

United States President Joe Biden has also met with Polish President Andrzej Duda to further discuss the situation with Ukraine and Poland\u2019s role in it. The country has taken in just over two million Ukrainian refugees since the start of the fighting, the most of any country, and Biden wanted to reaffirm that the U.S. recognizes the burden and is still willing to lend help to Ukraine. \u201cWe do acknowledge that Poland is taking on significant responsibility,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t think it should just be Poland. It should be the whole world, all of NATO\u2019s responsibility.\u201d Biden also met with U.S. troops and dozens of refugees while in Poland and even called Russian President Vladimir Putin a \u201cbutcher\u201d when asked about Putin. In a speech, he also talked about how the \u201cfree world\u201d needs to unite in order to resist the Russian forces. While the U.S. currently has no strategy for a potential regime change in Russia, according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Biden has stated that Putin \u201ccannot remain in power.\u201d<\/p>\n

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President Biden meets with Polish President Andrzej Duda (Photo courtesy of AP News)<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As for the fighting itself, new information from the Ukrainian military suggests that Russia is trying to split Ukraine into two separate regions. This reports comes after efforts from Russian forces to take the whole country at once seemed to lose momentum due to the Ukrainian resistance. Russian weaponry has also started to hit the city of Lviv in western Ukraine, which is home to a fuel station for Ukrainian forces as well as hundreds of refugees looking to flee the country. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on the U.S. and other western countries to supply more planes, tanks, and other defenses in their efforts to push back the Russians.<\/p>\n

There have also been reports that Putin is being mislead by his advisers on how the war is actually going. These reports, stemming from White House officials and British intelligence, say that the advisers are \u201ctoo scared\u201d to inform Putin of the Russian\u2019s lack of progress, and that Russian soldiers are demoralized and refuse to carry out orders. The Kremlin has since fired back, saying the U.S. has a \u201ctotal misunderstanding\u201d of what is happening. \u201cThey simply don\u2019t understand what\u2019s happening in the Kremlin,\u201d said Dmitry Peskov, Putin\u2019s chief spokesperson. \u201cTotal misunderstanding leads to wrong decisions which have bad consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Contact Michael at michael.morano1@student.shu.edu<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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