The Kremlin is likely to continue making claims to the West and ignoring Ukraine as a sovereign state, supporting ongoing information operations aimed at forcing the West to make concessions, as well as pressuring Kyiv to negotiate.. ISW reports..

The Kremlin regularly portrays Ukraine as a “pawn” of the West, which lacks real sovereignty to bar Ukrainian officials from future direct negotiations and blame Western officials for negotiations with the Russian Federation..

According to ISW analysts, the Kremlin is regularly making claims against the West because of the war, rather than making claims against Ukraine itself, in order to take advantage of the desire of Western countries for negotiations and create a dynamic in which Western leaders will feel pressured.. Thus, the Kremlin is trying to force them to make concessions in order to lure Russia to the negotiating table..

The Kremlin will regularly portray Ukrainian officials as wantonly dragging out the war while repeating their war aims.. Moscow is trying to influence Western leaders to put pressure on Ukraine and force it to negotiate on more favorable terms for Russia.

According to ISW, the Kremlin is not interested in serious negotiations that would lead to the end of the war against Ukraine, but is seeking a temporary cessation of hostilities, which would allow it to rearm and replenish its army for further offensive operations against Ukraine..

In addition, the Kremlin is increasingly engaging individual military bloggers in its information campaigns, likely in an attempt to restore the dominant narrative in the information space..

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Earlier, ISW analysts noted that Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to show his own non-recognition of the Ukrainian authorities as equals.. He also does not consider Ukraine a sovereign state.. At the same time, the leader of the Russian Federation is trying to absolve himself of responsibility for prolonging the war, which is why the rhetoric about readiness for negotiations has appeared, which is actually deceptive..