The announcement from the Russian news agency TASS over the weekend might have sounded too good to be true for Ukrainians, and for those distraught by the devastation inflicted by Russian bombs and missiles on Ukrainian cities and civilians.
It quoted prominent Russian Duma deputy Leonid Slutsky as saying peace talks between Ukraine and Russia have made “considerable progress” and that “documents could be signed” within days.
In response, Ukrainian negotiators said they sensed a shift in the utterly unfounded Russian position of its “denazification” and “demilitarization” of Ukraine. They also said they sensed that their own demands were finally being
