Negotiations with Putin never yield results

From the Dialog, Dec 15, 2025:

"Butusov expressed a harsh and unambiguous opinion about the peace talks: "Putin always does this..." 

Military journalist Yuriy Butusov recalled that the negotiations have been ongoing since 2014 and have still not yielded results

"What can I say? So far, I don't see any logic in the negotiations. The enemy continues its offensive, as it has for the past four years of the Great War, and there are still eight years to go before that, and negotiations (this is already our twelfth year of negotiations). Putin always does this to continue the offensive," Yuriy Butusov commented on the peace talks.  

The military journalist wrote about this on his YouTube channel. 

"For Putin, negotiations are a way to block diplomatic escalation, block further sanctions, and a tool for dividing the united anti-Russian front in NATO countries, Europe, and America. That's why Putin needs negotiations. If negotiations were real, then they would need to be negotiated with real terms. When they declare that Ukraine, even before sitting down at the negotiating table, must decide to renounce a large part of its territory, important and very advantageous defense lines, and surrender them, then what will happen next?" the Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier explained the essence of what's happening. 

Butusov noted: "What about Putin? Putin will later say he's not satisfied with the terms, as was the case with the Minsk agreements. He wasn't satisfied with the Budapest Memorandum or the interstate agreements with Ukraine. He wasn't satisfied with any of this, and he tore up all of these agreements one after another. Friends, let's be realistic. The reality now is war. Everything else is just talk (diplomatic and political) that's been going on for twelve years, and it hasn't affected the intensity of the fighting in any way.""