"If this is what a path to peace looks like, it's arriving to the soundtrack of AC/DC's Shoot to Thrill, with some bombastic Tony Stark-style soundbites thrown in for effect, leaving many asking the obvious question: why doesn't this feel much like peace? At MSC on Feb. 14, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered what amounted to a warning shot at the diplomacy itself. Talks are happening, yes, but the pressure, he argued, is being applied in the wrong direction."
""Sometimes it feels like the sides are talking about completely different things," he said, stressing that the U.S. and partners too often talk about concessions "only in the context of Ukraine, not Russia." Zelenskyy's message in Munich was blunt: any deal that doesn't come with enforceable security guarantees is not peace , it's an intermission. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty described the speech as an "impassioned plea" for weapons and "real security guarantees," with Zelensky calling Putin a "slave to war.""
"Ukraine is days away from the fourth anniversary of the full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, and the winter campaign against energy infrastructure is still biting, even as temperatures thaw and yet another Russian winter strategy designed to break Ukrainian resilience has failed, despite billions spent, spring now only weeks away. Reuters reporting from Feb. 15 underlined just how intense that pressure remains. Zelensky said Russia launched roughly 1,300 attack drones, 1,200 guided aerial bombs, and dozens of ballistic missiles at Ukraine over the past week alone."
World leaders gathered at the Munich Security Conference while missiles, drones, blackouts, and political mixed messages persisted across Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that diplomatic pressure was being applied in the wrong direction, saying the sides sometimes talk about completely different things and that concessions are framed only in the context of Ukraine, not Russia. He insisted that any deal without enforceable security guarantees is not peace but an intermission. Russia launched roughly 1,300 attack drones, 1,200 guided aerial bombs, and dozens of ballistic missiles over the past week. A winter campaign targeted energy infrastructure but failed to break Ukrainian resilience.
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