{"id":251598,"date":"2022-03-30T07:57:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T07:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=251598"},"modified":"2022-03-31T06:27:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T06:27:56","slug":"russia-vows-to-radically-reduce-military-activity-in-northern-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=251598","title":{"rendered":"Russia vows to \u2018radically reduce\u2019 military activity in northern Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jon Henley, Pjotr Sauer and Shaun walker \u2013 The Guardian March 30, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Russia has pledged to drastically cut back its military activity in northern Ukraine<\/a> to help advance peace talks, but experts and western diplomats expressed doubts that the move was more than a ploy to dress up setbacks on the ground.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s deputy defence minister, Alexander Fomin, said after talks in Istanbul on Tuesday that Moscow wanted to \u201cincrease mutual trust, create the right conditions for future negotiations and reach the final aim of signing a peace deal with Ukraine\u201d, and that the Kremlin would \u201cradically reduce military activity in the direction of Kyiv and Chernihiv\u201d.<\/p>\n

Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a video address early on Wednesday: \u201cWe can say the signals we are receiving from the talks are positive but they do not drown out the explosions of Russian shells.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Russian army still has significant potential to continue attacks against our state,\u201d he added. \u201cTherefore we are not reducing our defensive efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Moscow presented its move as a goodwill gesture, it came as Russia\u2019s advance appeared to have stalled on several fronts, with the Kremlin\u2019s forces thwarted by stiff Ukrainian resistance, heavy losses and logistical and tactical failings.<\/p>\n

Having failed to seize the Ukrainian capital and force an early capitulation, Moscow said last week<\/a> it was shifting its focus to expanding the territory held by pro-Russia separatists in the eastern Donbas region. The defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, said hours before the talks the \u201cmain goal\u201d was now the \u201cliberation\u201d of Donbas.<\/p>\n

The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said he had not seen anything indicating that talks were progressing in a \u201cconstructive way\u201d and suggested Russian indications of a pullback could be an attempt by Moscow to \u201cdeceive people and deflect attention\u201d.<\/p>\n

Speaking on a visit to Morocco, Blinken said that there was \u201cwhat Russia says, and what Russia does, and we\u2019re focused on the latter. What Russia is doing is the continued brutalisation of Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Western MSM is trying to present this as a military failure for Russia. We believe that this is a deliberate misrepresentation because 1) Russia did not aim to seize the whole of Ukraine and 2) the conflict may be far from over. In fact it may have only just begun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251598"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251602,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251598\/revisions\/251602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}