00:00Russia says it does remain open to a summit with the U.S. in Budapest.
00:05Is the Kremlin serious about ending this war with Ukraine or is this just another delay tactic?
00:15Well, that's a very good question.
00:17You know, I'm asking myself and I'm asking my Russian friends and colleagues and experts who know Putin well and his thinking.
00:28And my question is, you know, what's his mission statement?
00:32I mean, that's a real question is what Putin wants to achieve after almost four years.
00:38Look, I mean, Russia or Kremlin has been fighting Ukraine, which is four times less population, a much smaller country.
00:47I mean, and they're fighting almost four years.
00:50Soon it will be longer than Soviet Union or Russia fought the Second World War against Nazi Germany.
00:57And, you know, at the end of the day, they have succeeded only by obtaining 20 percent of Ukrainian territory.
01:06And it's, I mean, you know, the primary goal of Putin to see regime change in Kyiv is beyond of feasibility.
01:14So I'm wondering myself, what are the current President Putin's war games, what his mission statement, what he wants to achieve.
01:25From my point of view, and reading, you know, the body language of his conversation with Trump, he wants to make a deal with Donald Trump.
01:34The deal which would go, I mean, I think which would freeze the contact line further to the west of Ukraine so that, you know, Russia would declare at least, you know, occupying larger part of Ukraine.
01:50But he also wants to get more than that.
01:53We don't know what kind of business conversations are taking place between Trump's and Putin's team.
01:59And we don't know what kind of new European security architecture they may want to negotiate at the end of the war.
02:09We don't know what kind of new people are taking place between Trump's and Putin's and Putin's and Putin's and Putin's and Putin's and Putin's.
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