Russian opposition journalist Michael Nacke in the Dialog, Aug. 18:
"I won't recount all the information insanity that poured out yesterday. Let's quickly run through the main players. Let's start with Putin's stooge, Witkoff. He reiterated the concession Russia agreed to. According to him, this concession is not to seize all of Ukraine. A good concession, a great one. I could make a concession to Witkoff and, in exchange for Trump giving me 3-4 US states, sign a paper stating that I won't seize the rest of America. I hope they consider it soon.
I mentioned the piece of paper for a reason. Witkoff says that Ukraine's security guarantee will consist of (take a deep breath, as Zadornov would say) Putin writing into law that he will not attack Ukraine or Europe. Here, of course, the Kremlin is taking advantage of the fact that Trump and Witkoff are short-sighted people. I mean, Russia already gave written commitments not to attack Ukraine, and then gave a hundred thousand such verbal commitments. You know how it ended.
Moreover, the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation currently contains Article 353, which reads as follows: "Planning, preparing, unleashing, or waging an aggressive war. First: planning, preparing, or unleashing an aggressive war is punishable by imprisonment for a term of 7 to 15 years. Second: waging an aggressive war is punishable by imprisonment for a term of 10 to 20 years." So, as I've said many times, Putin and his comrades are criminals under Russian law, and any police officer has the right to detain them."
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