Vladimir Putin has delineated Russian conditions for a broad, permanent sustainable peace: No temporary ceasefires, no European "peacekeepers," no NATO in #Ukraine - and recognition of Crimea and the oblasts Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia and Kherson as permanent Russian territory.

As long as the US, EU NATO countries and Zelensky do not recognize these historical Russian oblasts as permanent Russian territory, the #Russia army will continue advancing beyond the four oblasts and toward the historical “Russian cities” of Odessa, Mykolaiv, Dnipro and Kharkiv.