Rugoz wrote:If Putin were satisfied with the currently occupied territory, he would not order his military to attack and throw meat into the grinder like a madman. There's no indication that he wants a peace with the current frontlines as borders. He never said so either.
That peace summit is quite useless as Russia made it clear from the very beginning that it will not participate.
People are stupid and have short term memory. Every time there is a peace summit then Putin pretends that he is in to peace, foreign intelligence wise it is a tactic used to force your adversaries to make faulty decisions. So its understandable why he does it, if he says he is into peace then perhaps some will say we should wait with those weapon shipments to force Ukraine to talk or say things like Ukraine is not talking to Russia etc etc And when Russia is invited then they just blow up the peace process like they did at the start of the war by proposing things like almost full Ukrainian disarmament, vote on aid to Ukraine so Russia can block all military aid if it attacks, keeping all territories and getting some more. Russian peace plan is basically Ukrainian surrender if you haven't noticed from the last time so Russia could try again in 1-2 years with being able to block aid shipments to Ukraine for some reason. Who even would agree to that in their right mind?
The reality is though he did it for every "peace" summit that Ukraine held for the conflict and every time they were over then he continued doing his normal stuff. Destroying Mariupol, firing ballistic missiles at civilian infrastructure or housing, starting more meat charges in different places, talking how Ukraine doesn't exist, taking prisoners of war and constructing re-education/filtration camps on the occupied territories etc etc
The reason why he is doing it more for this one, is because countries who were previously not interested in the conflict are coming. They kinda realised that the war is fucking everyone up so to speak. Prime example being the grain blockade that everyone forgot already since Ukraine smashed the Russian fleet.