Russian political analyst Andrei Piontkovsky said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is desperately trying to find an approach to the West in order to stop the suicidal personal sanctions.

About this political scientist reported in an interview with "Apostrophe".

"Yes, this is Putin's demagogy, turned to the West, to show that he is a peacemaker. It's all from a series of desperate attempts to stop suicidal personal sanctions. "Behold, I am a peacemaker". He then offered to talk about UN peacekeepers, now the prisoners are changing. He is in a rush and wants to implement what I called a year ago a hybrid capitulation - to do something that the West would accept as a retreat and lift sanctions, and the Russian population could be sold as some kind of victory. As he now sold the war in Syria, for the third or fourth time "withdrawing troops" from there, "said Piontkovsky.

At the moment, Putin, according to the political scientist, is engaged in blackmail.

"Like, I can help with the settlement of the Korean problem. We can help the West protect him from terrorists. Here agree with us, admit that the post-Soviet space is our zone of influence, let us do everything with Ukraine, and then you will not have nuclear strikes against Kim Jong-un, you will not have terrorists, and so on ". But this game does not pass, and Putin lost it, "the political scientist said..