Kadyrov Names New Condition For Ending War Against Ukraine

The Kremlin's appetite is growing.

The war in Ukraine will end only when it becomes part of Russia, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said in an interview with RIA Novosti. He emphasized that it is "unprofitable" to stop fighting now.

In early September, it became known that by delaying negotiations on ending the war, Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing a new offensive in Ukraine. According to European estimates, his army will try to make a breakthrough near Pokrovsk, which it has been unable to capture for more than a year. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said Russia had moved 100,000 troops near the city. Capturing Pokrovsk would open the way to Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, the last major unoccupied cities in the Donetsk region.

Now, in exchange for peace, Putin is demanding that Ukraine give up Donbass completely, but agrees to freeze the front along the line of contact in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions. Zelensky noted that meeting these conditions would not end the war: Russia would simply use the resulting territories as a springboard for a further offensive.

"If we somehow withdraw from Donbass tomorrow, which will not happen, we would open up an unprotected space for Putin, next to the city of one and a half million people in Kharkiv. He would also seize the industrial center of Dnipro," Zelensky explained. The president emphasized that if Putin managed to seize all of Ukraine, he would use it to attack Europe.

Now Russia controls 88% of Donbass and 73% of Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions, a total of about 20% of Ukraine's territory. And despite ambitious plans, Putin's army is advancing very slowly: last year it managed to capture 1% of Ukrainian territory, and 0.3% during the 2025 summer offensive.

Admiral Tony Radakin, the former Chief of Defense Staff of the UK Armed Forces, who recently left his post, said that "if a snail started crawling from Rostov-on-Don on February 24, 2022, it would have crawled all of Ukraine and passed half of Poland by then - that's how hard Russia is having a hard time." According to Radakin, if Putin continues to wage war at the same pace, it will take him another 4.4 years to seize the remaining territory of the four regions of Ukraine.

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