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Russia and the US did not make progress toward a peace deal for Ukraine during their talks, a senior aide to Vladimir Putin has said, hours after the Russian president issued threats that Russia was ready for war with Europe.

In remarks to Russian media, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said that after a five-hour meeting with Trump envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, the two sides were “neither further nor closer to resolving the crisis in Ukraine. There is a lot of work to be done.”

The downbeat assessment of Tuesday night’s diplomacy follows combative opening statements from Putin as Witkoff and Kushnerarrived for talks at the Kremlin, in which he accused European powers of sabotaging peace in Ukraine and that “European demands” on ending the war were “not acceptable to Russia”.

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[–] realitista@lemmus.org 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

As much as we hate to admit it, I agree with you. Ukraine was better equipped and prepared than most European countries currently are.

If NATO fights together they will defeat Russia, but Russia could easily beat many of the small countries in Europe and then add their soldiers and production to their own and keep moving on if fighting one by one.

Russia currently produces more tanks, drones, and artillery per year than most European countries have total in their arsenal and more total than all of NATO combined produce per year.

And if you think I'm just some tankie, please see my post history and the links below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_main_battle_tanks_by_country

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/artillery-by-country

https://united24media.com/latest-news/russia-gears-up-for-a-tank-surge-1100-new-t-90m2-planned-in-secret-wartime-program-12403

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/russia-ammunition-ukraine/

https://news.sky.com/story/russian-suicide-drone-launches-quadruple-this-year-13463263