Post-Putin scenario caps Ukrainian analysis of stalled peace talks
Journalist Oleksiy Dushka juxtaposes uncompromising Russian territorial demands, US diplomatic hopes and reports of Ukrainian strikes inside Russia.
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- 1:46Dushka reports that Putin delayed meeting US negotiators while conferring with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon.
- 3:30Zelenskyy rejects territorial withdrawal as a route to peace and makes sarcastic remarks about Trump's Greenland ambitions.
- 5:11The commentary reports Ukrainian strikes on Ust-Luga port facilities and the Omsk oil refinery.
- 8:15Medinsky's territorial demands are presented as evidence of Russia's uncompromising negotiating position.
- 11:15Kushner expresses hope for diplomatic progress and Putin's approval of possible talks with Zelenskyy.
- 13:42A hypothetical scenario attributed to RAND imagines Putin's death in 2027 and subsequent regional conflict.
A hypothetical future without Vladimir Putin, rather than an announced farewell address, supplies the closing theme of Oleksiy Dushka's November 12 commentary for Ukraine's Channel 24 (24 Канал). The journalist discusses a scenario attributed to the RAND Corporation that imagines Putin's death in 2027 and subsequent regional conflict. It is a hypothetical exercise, not evidence about Putin's health or a prediction that he will die then.
That distinction matters because the video's headline asks whether Putin has delivered his final address. The analysis itself ranges much more widely, from negotiations in Moscow and Abu Dhabi to reported attacks on Russian energy and military targets.
Dushka characterizes the Abu Dhabi talks as a failure, contrasting Russian delegation head Vladimir Medinsky's territorial demands with American hopes for further diplomacy. In the excerpts presented, Medinsky insists that territory Russia considers its own must be returned and that Russian flags, once raised, should not be lowered. He also makes European participation in negotiations conditional on what he describes as a change of conscience.
Clips of Jared Kushner offer a different emphasis: he expresses hope that he and US envoy Steve Witkoff can succeed, and that Putin will give his blessing to a possible meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Dushka also reports that Putin kept American negotiators waiting while meeting Tajik President Emomali Rahmon.
Zelenskyy's objections appear in footage from Ireland and Denmark. He criticizes the idea that Ukraine should leave its own territory to end the war, while also making sarcastic remarks about Donald Trump's interest in Greenland.
Alongside the diplomacy, Dushka reports Ukrainian drone strikes on port facilities at Ust-Luga in northwestern Russia and an oil refinery in Omsk, Siberia. He discusses an operation attributed to Ukraine's SBU security service against a Buyan-M missile ship in the Gulf of Finland. The broadcast also carries claims that Russian air defenses struck residential buildings and downed Russian military helicopters; these remain claims presented in the commentary.
The closing RAND discussion shifts from those reported events to an imagined succession crisis, a different kind of material from the negotiation excerpts and strike reports that precede it.
An aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin and a former Russian culture minister. He is also a diplomat and historian.
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