August promises to be hot.
The trip of Gerhard Schröder, ex-chancellor of Germany, to Moscow, trips of Russian envoys to European countries, and lobbying of certain circles in the USA indicate that Putin presses for negotiations. Of course, on Russian terms. He will try to consolidate all his "achievements" by including them in a peace treaty and kind of legalising them in this way. For Ukraine, it will essentially mean capitulation, with which Ukraine, of course, will not agree. Even if someone in the President's Office has such thoughts, the patriotic public will never allow them to come true.
These are the basics of the Russian diplomacy: to succeed in diplomatic negotiations, you need to raise the degree of tension. This is what Putin will do.
https://razumkov.org.ua/statti/putin-duzhe-pospishaie-chogo-ukraini-chekaty-u-serpni
