#Russias have just brought into the public discourse what I believe Putin privately offered Trump at the end of February - peace in exchange for Donbas, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. This offer was just made public by ‘Kommersant’ journalist Kolesnikov referring to ‘sources in the Kremlin’.
I am convinced that #Ukraine has known about this offer from the very beginning, hence Zelensky’s justified anger in Washington, where Trump probably went with arguments like ‘give them back Zaporizhzhia, I’ll give you dollars, if there is peace, you will build another one’ as if it was a golf field.
The situation is a dead end because Trump gives the impression of having no idea what the situation is, and Putin seems to have no idea how to resolve the conflict. The current escalation of demands is the only thing Putin can do, except the economic situation and the front are not favourable to him.