News Forum - UKRAINE UPDATES: 2nd round of peace talks ends without ceasefire, Zelensky asks for private meeting with Putin, planes

[Thaiger]

As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine enters its second week, here are the major stories circulating today… • Ukraine’s President Zelensky has asked Russian President Vladimir Putin for talks, one on one, saying this is the only way to end the war. Zelensky also appealed to the West to “give me planes” to fight the invasion. He warns that if Russia captures Ukraine, the Baltic states will be next. Putin has been receiving European heads of state and ambassadors to the Kremlin at a now famously long table. • Russian and Ukrainian negotiators agree to organise humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians, though […]

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[EdwardV]

Moldova will be next, not the Baltic States. Russia already has a small army at the Moldova border sitting in a breakaway province (sound familiar?). Once the troops that broke out of the Crimea link up, they will move into Moldova proper. 
 

The whole plane idea is DOA. Once Putin rattled the nuclear saber, the west changed their mind. It wasn’t worth the chance of escalation. I don’t think the nations in question were too keen on the idea anyway. With Putin’s tanks running around, they didn’t want to give up a large portion of their existing Air Force without ready replacements.