Vladimir Putin, Russia’s ruler, has said what most of the rest of us were thinking. Ukraine is not interested in peace or any kind of peace deal that would secure a ceasefire agreement.

While speaking at a government meeting on Wednesday, Putin further claimed that Ukraine is trying to cling to power by subverting the peace process.  Putin said the recent sabotage of railway infrastructure in Russia’s Bryansk and Kursk Regions was a deliberate strike on civilians intended to disrupt the negotiations. Both of the attacks came shortly before the second round of Russia-Ukraine talks in Istanbul and amid a surge in Kiev’s drone raids into Russia, which Moscow says are aimed at derailing attempts to reach a settlement in the conflict.

The two incidents occurred on Saturday evening and Sunday morning. In the Bryansk Region, a bridge collapsed in front of a moving passenger train. In the Kursk Region, a freight train derailed when a railway bridge gave way. In total, seven people died and over 120 were injured. –RT

During the meeting, Putin said that the attacks were most definitely the result of decisions made by Ukraine’s top political leadership, calling them “undoubtedly a terrorist act.”

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“This only confirms our concern that the already illegitimate regime in Kiev, which once seized power, is gradually turning into a terrorist organization, and its sponsors are becoming accomplices to terrorists,” Putin was quoted as saying by a report by RT. “Under all international norms, such actions are called terrorism,” Putin said.

Putin also accused Ukraine and its Western backers of changing tactics to try to beat Russia using terrorism, as losses to Kiev mount and conscripted soldiers flee in droves. “Today, amid heavy losses and retreating along the entire line of contact, the Kiev leadership has turned to organizing terrorist acts in an attempt to intimidate Russia,” Putin said.

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While questioning the competence of Ukraine’s ruling class, Putin said that Ukraine’s forces have suffered “senseless and enormous losses.”

“What kind of authority can the leaders of a thoroughly rotten and completely corrupt regime possess?” Putin added. “But how can such meetings be held under these conditions? What is there to talk about? Who conducts negotiations with those who rely on terror, with terrorists?”

Putin emphasized that “power, for the [Kiev] regime, is apparently more important than peace, more important than human lives.”

Much of the outside world has also come to this conclusion. What about you? Do you agree with Putin? Or is Ukraine actively trying to broker a peace agreement? Let us know in the comments!