The focus of the Russia-Ukraine negotiations: The Russian side insists on the bottom line of the four districts, and the Ukrainian side refuses to expand the buffer zone.

This round of Ukraine-Russia negotiations, Russia's ceasefire conditions include turning Kharkiv and Sumy regions into buffer zones, and requesting the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the four newly joined Russian regions; otherwise, the Dnipropetrovsk region will be added in the next conditions.

In response to the above report, the Russian negotiation delegation asked the media for correction, stating that the phrase "next time it will be eight regions" was a misrepresentation of Ukraine's refusal to negotiate on the new four states.

In other words, Russia's goal has always been clear. The bottom line is the four states (the original four eastern Ukrainian states that have joined Russia through referendums), and the expected value is the New Russia eight states, including Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, and Odesa.

If this is the case, then there would basically be no Ukraine left on this planet.

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