Putin launches a new spring offensive and ignores Donald Trump’s peace process

In recent days, Russia has started the one that can be the last offensive of this war especially taking into account the exhaustion of its army and the resources available not so much of recruits although of armored and armament, more and morenguantes.

With the arrival of good weather, The attacks have multiplied throughout the front line but especially in the Pokrovsk area, Donbás heart, and on the northern border, in the Sumy region. It is the same place in which last Sunday of Russia Russia killed 35 civilians in the center of their capital With two Iskander missiles loaded with the prohibitive ammunition of cluster In urban areas.

For a few weeks, the Ukrainian high command had been warning of Great concentrations of Russian troops on the border with neighbor Kursk. Moscow has tried, for the moment without success, to penetrate the defenses that Ukraine has prepared throughout the winter. The strategy is to try to conquer at least one provincial capital in Ukraine, something that could be sold as a victory in Moscow, since since the Russian invasion began it has not managed to retain any. Even Jersón, controlled during the first days of the war, ended up losing it months later. Taking sumy, they could also threaten All the supply towards the city of Járkivthe second most important in the country, and try to isolate it.

But the reality at this point is that Any Russian advance is paid with thousands of soldiers. Yesterday, the British Intelligence Service encrypted at 1,300 casualties the daily in the Russian army, somewhat less than the little dead and injured, set at 1,600 at the end of 2024.

From the alleged high the fire that Vladimir Putin intended to negotiate with Donald Trump nothing is known, because Moscow plans and executes offensives that take months to prepare while massaging Trump’s ego and his sent to Kremlin, like Steve Witkoff, that even He put his hand to the heart Before bumping Putin’s hand.

Before the brutal bombing of Sunday in Sumy and the disconcerting paper of Trump, who referred to the attack as “an error”Zelenski sent a personal message to the US president: “Do you think you understand what is happening here in Ukraine? Before any negotiation, come to see people, civilians, soldiers, hospitals, churches, children injured or dead. You will see what Putin did.” But Trump’s response was even closer to Moscow’s position: “The war between Russia and Ukraine is Biden’s war, not mine.” And he continued: “Biden and Zelenski did a horrible job allowing this war.” In the criticisms that arrive from the current White House, Putin is never responsible for anythingalthough only he ordered an invasion of a sovereign and democratic territory and his army has been committing atrocities in Ukraine for more than three years.

Submission

Trump’s submission and the whole Maga (Make America Great Again) with the Putin Russia contrasts with the almost unanimous response that the attack found in the European allies of Ukraine. Everyone came out to condemn the bombinglike last week, when Russia attacked a playground in the city of Dnipro.

As if he wanted to make that distance clear, Zelenski was thanking in his X account to all the leaders (including Pedro Sánchez) who sympathized with Ukraine after the bombing, which even made the void left by the US more evident. Neither Trump nor Vance referred to the attack by social networks.

In this context, the new German chancellor Friedrich Merz, who seems much more resolved than the socialist Olaf Scholz, has returned to the forefront the delivery to Ukraine of the Taurus cruise missiles, capable of reaching white more than 400 kilometers awaywhich would further complicate Russian logistics.

While the Kremlin prepares for its party on May 9, the so -called Victory Day in the Great Patria War, which is what the Second World War is called in Russia, Zelenski has counteratacious calling European leaders in kyiv that same day and with the same goal: reflect the distance that exists today between Moscow and the rest of Europe.