The events of the past week demonstrate that the situation surrounding peace negotiations on Ukraine can be described as an escalatory deadlock. On the one hand, formal negotiation activity continues; on the other hand, it is producing no results and is increasingly being replaced by the logic of pressure.
This week we observed a series of developments that collectively deliver a significant information and political blow to the position of the President of Ukraine.
Ruslan Bortnik, direttore dell’Istituto di Politica di Kiev: “La Russia aveva inviato segnali all’amministrazione Trump dicendo di essere pronta a usare missili balistici, forse persino evocando una minaccia nucleare”
https://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2026/05/10/news/intervista_ruslan_bort…
Apparently, at the international level, an implicit consensus is forming around Ukraine in favor of continuing the war at least in the medium term — on a horizon of up to two years. The negotiation process has effectively been put on pause: substantive decisions have been postponed, at least until autumn — the period of the U.S. congressional elections.
Executive Brief: What follows is the collation of views regarding European and Ukrainian security offered by activist intellectuals who took part in a symposium sponsored by the American Council for Justice and Conflict Resolution and the Ukrainian Institute for Politics.
Germany and France offer Ukraine an interim status on the way to EU membership, which involves gradual integration without a full set of rights.
Базова стратегія України до осені 2026 року — режим «фортеці в облозі».
