between ukrainians and russians. most recently in turkey. there again, confusion what russia s negotiating position is and contradictory statements from, for example, lavrov, russia s foreign ministry, foreign minister and peskov, the kremlin spokesman about what russia s aims are keying back into what we ve been talking ak. what are putin s orders? who is prepared to collar phi what his red lines and bottom lines are? clearly to judge by the very mixed range of signals coming out of russian negotiating teams, there isn t clarity fri from putin. putin s head is in a confused space. i strongly underline what ian said, and anne, that a strategic communications offensive may be we re seeing beginning of it, long overdue.
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