President Zelensky declared he did not want to prolong the conflict.

According to RIA Novosti, speaking at the European Union Summit on June 27, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared that he did not want to prolong the conflict due to the losses in Kiev.

“We must come up with a plan within a few months. We don’t have much time because there are so many wounded and dead on the battlefield,” President Zelenksy said at the EU Summit on June 27.

American political science professor John Mearsheimer said the situation in Ukraine will worsen in the coming months and the US leadership's claims that "Ukraine's strategy is proving effective" are meaningless.

Mearsheimer said the situation will get worse in the coming months as Russia continues to attack the grid, and then as the fall and especially winter approaches, things will get really bad, causing huge damage to industry and the armed forces.

“So the argument that everything is fine in Ukraine and we are helping them stabilize the situation is another example of Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the Biden administration in general making nonsense comments. Ukraine is in big trouble, and so are we,” the US expert said.

Russia has repeatedly expressed its willingness to negotiate with Ukraine, but President Zelensky has rejected this possibility.

President Vladimir Putin in June spoke about the conditions for peace negotiations in Ukraine, including: the withdrawal of Ukrainian armed forces from all territories of the new Russian regions, while Kiev must abandon its intention to join NATO. The president noted that as soon as Ukraine expressed its readiness to agree to these conditions and officially announced its abandonment of plans to join NATO, Russia would immediately order a ceasefire and start negotiations. President Putin added that in order to resolve the conflict peacefully, Russia needs Ukraine to have a neutral, non-aligned and nuclear-free status.