Russia tipped for peace talks as fight to become ‘much harder’
Ukraine: Peace deal could emerge as war continues into winter
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The British author laid out what he predicted may happen in the illegal invasion of Ukraine, and explained why the war was likely to resume by next spring following a grinding slowdown over the winter. He suggested And that in the lack of a breakthrough a peace deal would begin to be outlined by Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The warning comes as Kyiv claims success across the two-pronged fronts of Kherson and Kharkiv over Russia’s army.
Mr Marshall told Times Radio: “So where we are in phase three in attrition is approaching the winter.
“The ground gets much hard, much harder to fight there will be skirmishes.
“We get to next Spring they’ll go at it again, hammer and tongs.
“If there is no breakthrough, if one side is not hurting enough, at that point you may see the outline of the peace deal emerging. I’m not saying it will be signed, but the outline of it will emerge.
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Mr Marshall added: “Phase one, the invasion which was halted giving time for the weapons flow to arrive.
“Phase two the Russians concentrating on the East in the Donbas and the South.
“And now phase three, it’s simply attrition there’s a 620-mile-long front line and in the past week or so the Ukrainians have actually gone out on the counterattack.
“But it is incremental, its village by village and sometimes just a few hundred of yards. And I don’t think they’re going to break through across that front.”
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The war in Ukraine has been raging for over six months, and peace deals have been halted so far as both countries bombard each other on the front lines.
What President Putin claimed would be a three-day invasion and conquer has gone on much longer than intended.
Ukraine has vowed to take back every inch of Ukrainian land that Russia was occupying.
Some experts have been predicting that Russia has been experiencing a lack of ammunition supplies due to sanctions, which are affecting them negatively, and that this could lead to a possible withdrawal.
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Lord Richard Dannatt told Times Radio: “You’ve got to face reality because they would then perfectly reasonably say the West, having encouraged them is now selling them down the line.
“He has got to at some point realise and his advisers have got to realise, and the military commanders have got to advise.
“Look, Mr President, we have done as much as we can but we really can’t throw the Russians out.
“We can prevent them from taking any more territory, but I think we are going into a stalemate situation.
“President Zelensky, Sir, you’ve got to start negotiating.”
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