As expected, another meeting in Istanbul did not lead to anything dramatic. At the same time, the course of further confrontation to exhaustion has been set, in which Russia hopes to win, and it is clear that Putin is ready to pay any price for this.

But although there has been no fundamental change in the aggressor's position, it makes sense to analyze how its demands have changed in light of Ukraine's success and the situation at the front.

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