Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska believes that the war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine could drag on for months.

“Unfortunately, we are still far from the end of this conflict, and judging by the pace of these strange negotiations, peace, unfortunately, will not come in the coming months,” he wrote on Telegram..

Deripaska believes that at the current stage, China should join the Ukrainian-Russian negotiations.

“If just a week ago a trilateral agreement (Ukraine-Russia-USA) could be enough, now it seems that it will be impossible to do without the participation of China.. And the quadripartite talks is another story, which means that people will suffer for months to come,” he writes..

The oligarch predicts a food crisis by September. Ukraine, as one of the main suppliers of grain in the world, will not be able to carry out a full-fledged sowing campaign in a war.

In addition, Russian warships are blocking the exit of 94 Ukrainian grain carriers to the Mediterranean Sea.. The UN estimates that 13 million people around the world could face food insecurity.

“By September, the world will plunge into a global food crisis, and the governments of all countries will be worried about their own elections, and already completely different new problems,” Deripaska emphasizes.. The oligarch believes that it is necessary to end the war now.

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This is how Deripaska reacted to the interview of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky to the American television channel Fox News, in which he spoke about his vision of the end of the war and Putin's ultimate goal..

Success in repelling the Russian offensive means that the occupation of the entire country no longer threatens us, but does not mean the disappearance of risks for the future of Ukraine as a sovereign country. The Russian Federation can wage a war of attrition, despite heavy losses among poorly trained soldiers or a collapse of the economy.

Much will depend on what Russia itself calls a “victory,” The Guardian writes.. But if dictator Vladimir Putin ends the war with the conviction that the Russian Federation has not lost, this will push him to plan new wars against countries that he considers "