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On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 00:03:45 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

>If I was Zelensky, I'd shop around and see how many military troops the EU 
>would station in Ukraine along the borders, in return for say 30% of the 
>mineral rights or something like that.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov - Rejects Proposed European
Troop Deployments to Ukraine
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/47359

Zelenskyy is well aware that "a ceasefire can be a trap," says Evelyn
Farkas, a former Pentagon official in the Obama administration and now
executive director of the McCain Institute, a nonpartisan organization
with programs focusing on democracy and human rights.
....
....
Russia is no stranger to using ceasefire deals not as the basis of a
lasting peace, but to further its short-term military and political
aims, according to Plokhy, author of Chernobyl Roulette: War in the
Nuclear Disaster Zone. That's what the Kremlin did in Chechnya in two
separate conflicts that spanned some 15 years, from 1994-2009, he
says.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/21/nx-s1-5302560/ukraine-russia-ceasefire-trump-putin