Russia President, Vladimir Putin, is planning to fight on in Ukraine and weaken Donald Trump’s negotiating position in any peace deal.
Putin wants to raise tensions between the US and the rest of the world, according to a Russian document obtained by a Western intelligence agency.
The US is currently acting as a mediator between Ukraine and Russia. Last night, Trump confirmed that American envoys were travelling to Moscow to present a potential ceasefire plan to the Kremlin.
The proposal for a 30-day ceasefire has still not been accepted by Moscow.
Russia has shown no sign of letting up in its three-year war in Ukraine, with heavy aerial bombardments taking place in the days since the plan was announced.
As Washington continues to push for peace, documents from an influential Kremlin-linked thinktank, obtained by the Washington Post, suggest that Russia has been working to undermine a possible peace deal since at least February.
It appears that some measures in the document, reportedly written by an influential Moscow-based thinktank the week before the US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia in late February, have already informed the thinking of the Russian state.
The document, written for the FSB’s Fifth Service, the security service division that oversees operations in Ukraine, lays out the ways in which Russia could boost its standing by inflaming tensions between the US and both China and the EU.
Putin’s ‘secret plan’ for Ukraine revealed in classified document
