Despite intense media speculation surrounding Vladimir Putin's recent comments that the Ukraine war could end soon, a Russia expert told Newsweek the Russian president's words were taken out of context and that he has not budged from his ultimate war aims.Amid a temporary three?day U.S.-brokered ceasefire and after Moscow hosted a scaled back Victory Day parade marking the Soviet Union's defeat of Nazi Germany, focus turned to Putin’s suggestion that the war, which began in February 2022, was “coming to an end.”But senior analyst at the International Crisis Group, Oleg Ignatov, told Newsweek on Monday that Putin would not back down from his demand Ukraine’s troops leave...
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