Elijah J. Magnier  🇪🇺Verified account

The more the #US and #EU impose sanctions, the stronger the Rouble is exchanged. The rouble ended the day 5% higher at 75.75 against the dollar after briefly touching 74.2625, its strongest level since Feb. 11. Western sanctions are not aiming to stop the war in #Ukraine.

#US-led @UN General Assembly has Folkloricly voted to suspend Russia from the world organization’s human rights body over unconfirmed allegations of rights violations by #Russian soldiers in Ukraine, disregarding scientific & official investigations of all parties involved.

#US, #UK & EU countries acknowledged that sanctions on #Russia won't stop the war but aim to cripple the prosperous Russian economy. This means #Ukraine's only chance to stop the war is to negotiate because the outcome is far from being a surprise. It is only when the war ends.

It is not clear why #Ukraine - that is told you won't win the war - is refusing to submit to #Russia's conditions that it may end up signing in a few weeks or months. The longest the battle lasts, the more damaging will be to the Ukrainian population and military personnel.

Therefore, the astonishing element comes from #Ukraine leadership that is asking for more weapons to fight #Russia and make sure that more Ukrainians are killed or imprisoned or even worse, become wounded (heavy on the long-run economy, mainly handicaps).

Therefore, #US leaders have publicly stated that they aim for Russia to pay a heavy price in the war and nothing more. No leader can say that #Russia will lose the battle or not achieve its objectives. All that they repeat is that "Russia should pay a heavy price."

The Ukrainian army is considered a force that Washington – whose generals are running the battle from Ukraine’s neighbouring countries – can rely on for attrition and prolonging the struggle, but not, of course, to defeat the Russian army.

Thus, the theatre of operations has become much smaller than in the past weeks, allowing all goals to be achieved and keeping the Russian army on the battlefield until #Ukraine signs a treaty accepted by #Russia.

It is also clear that President Putin does not want to add more soldiers to the force he pushed at the beginning of the battle. Therefore, Russian Generals used a different method of fighting after accepting the process of attrition exposed in Ukraine.

In the last two weeks of the battle, Russia resorted to using its precise missiles and air force – except for the infantry attack inside the southern city of Mariupol – to compensate for the losses it incurred by entering the cities on the northern front.

At no time did Russia say its objective was to occupy the capital, although all indications and the gathering of large troops in Kyiv vicinities led to this conclusion. All western leaders, mainly the US, say that Russia "failed to occupy #Kyiv" is a false narrative.