01-05-2023, 08:41 AM
“I’m a soldier myself and he knows that, and I told him that the loss of his soldiers ... the number is huge.”
It was Nehammer’s first face-to-face meeting with Putin and he said he came away pessimistic about any end to the war.
But Nehammer said his account of the scale of the loss of Russian life made no impact on Putin.
“He didn’t show any sign of impression, he was not impressed by that number at all; he was impressed by the fact of the sanctions against the Russian Federation.
“Maybe now we have a chance again, maybe a chance for a ceasefire,” he said, citing the talks between Russia and Ukraine on war prisoner swaps and for the export of grain via Odesa.
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/e...5d4ab.html
It was Nehammer’s first face-to-face meeting with Putin and he said he came away pessimistic about any end to the war.
But Nehammer said his account of the scale of the loss of Russian life made no impact on Putin.
“He didn’t show any sign of impression, he was not impressed by that number at all; he was impressed by the fact of the sanctions against the Russian Federation.
“Maybe now we have a chance again, maybe a chance for a ceasefire,” he said, citing the talks between Russia and Ukraine on war prisoner swaps and for the export of grain via Odesa.
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/e...5d4ab.html