Russia will continue to fight if Kyiv does not agree to the Kremlin ultimatum - the media

Another powerful factor is Russia's diplomatic success, Rosenberg notes. An example of such success is Putin's several day-day visit to China: they say that the Russian Federation has influential friends, such as India, North Korea and the China itself (all of them are nuclear states). The United States also played their role. US President Donald Trump met with Putin in Alaska last month - and gave the pro -Kremliv propagandists to claim that attempts to isolate Russia had failed.

In addition, Trump has nominated ultimatums several times to end the war in Ukraine and put deadlines - but none of these promises was essentially realized. Rosenberg emphasizes that Putin's actions are supported by the Russian elite: in the economic forum in the Russian city of Vladivostok, the audience simply "exploded with applause" when the Kremlin head threatened with a blow to a foreign contingent if he appeared in Ukraine.

Putin recently stated that he sees "Light at the end of the tunnel", the journalist recalls. However, this is obviously different tunnels and different directions - Russia is on one, and Ukraine and Europe (and to some extent America) - on the other, and there is no reason to believe that these areas can be crossed. It should be noted that Steve Rosenberg is the Russian editor of the Air Force Information Service, and was previously a Moscow correspondent.

At one time, he covered such resonant events as the disaster of the Kursk submarine (2000) and a terrorist attack in Dubrovka in Moscow in 2002. Earlier it became known that US President Donald Trump was going to talk to Putin in the near future. Trump reported this after talking to President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, which took place on September 4. Zelensky, in turn, stated that the Kremlin wanted to buy a pause in sanctions.