The Kremlin will continue to express its dissatisfaction abroad and ignore Ukraine as a sovereign state, supporting current information operations aimed at making the West make concessions and put pressure on Kyiv for negotiations. This is stated in the next summary of the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
Analysts note that the Kremlin usually depicts Ukraine as a pawn of the West, deprived of any sovereignty in order to prevent Ukrainian officials from participating in future direct negotiations and instead present negotiations with Russia as the obligation of Western officials.
The Kremlin usually emphasizes its dissatisfaction with the West about the war in Ukraine, and not Ukraine itself, in order to benefit and create dynamics in which Western officials feel forced to go to premature concessions to lure Russia at the negotiating table, American experts say .
In their opinion, the Kremlin will constantly portray Ukrainian officials as delaying the war, while repeating their military goals, trying to influence Western officials so that they force Ukraine to negotiate on more favorable conditions for Russia.