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Why would Ukraine be influenced by something NATO is alleged to be wanting?  Zelensky has stated his terms for peace, and they are very far from what Putin would come anywhere close to accepting, so the point seems moot as to who wants what.  They will fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

I don't find these "reports" of NATO blocking some peace agreement as being sensible nor probable, just rumor and innuendo, click bait in effect.

Somebody's second cousin's wife know a guy who heard from a policeman ....

Speaking of naive ...

I tend to agree with CD on this

If Ukraine and Russia reached a peace agreement it would be huge news and there would not be much anyone could do to stop it

but currently they are far apart in there terms so anything else really does not matter

Ukraine has effectively been a US colony post 2014- when the US helped overthrow the democratically elected President and install a hand-picked puppet.

Ukraine is entirely dependent on the US and to a much lesser extent the US' bitch boy/lapdog the UK. There is literally nothing that happens inside Ukraine right now without the US being involved. The US is arming, training, and not to mention funding the entire country. US gave them $14 billion since March, is about to give them another $33 billion- some of which will go to keeping govt employees paid and the govt functioning. Pelosi was just there like not even a week ago.

And the bigger issue here is the US backed sanction regime. Russia has less incentive to end hostilities if the US and it's bitch boys like the UK don't stop trying to crush it with sanctions and bans. Ukraine can't make the US end the economic war. They can't make the US do anything- they are the ones who are in effect a colony of the US- not the other way around.

Pretty clear they want to use Ukraine to fight a proxy war for one goal: regime change.

Vladimir Putin could end the economic war tomorrow by quitting the ground war. This whole thing started at his discrection, and likewise this whole thing can end at his discrection. 

Even if the Kremlin throws in the towel tomorrow, the damage has already been done. 

Vladimir Putin could end the economic war tomorrow by quitting the ground war. This whole thing started at his discrection, and likewise this whole thing can end at his discrection.

Even if the Kremlin throws in the towel tomorrow, the damage has already been done.

you haven't been paying attention. The US doesn't want any negotiation. They haven't since before this thing started. They want complete surrender and they want regime change. And they'll use Ukraine until that country is completely and utterly destroyed and every last Ukrainian is dead to get what they want.

I'm trying to imagine the negotiators meeting and somehow coming to an agreement, only to find the US has said "Nope".

I'm failing at that.  There is no agreement, they aren't even close to one.

The US sees “anecdotal reports” of Russian troops and “mid-grade officers at various levels, even up to the battalion level” refusing to obey orders to move forward in the new Donbas offensive in Ukraine, according to a senior US defense official.
The official said these officers “have either refused to obey orders or are not obeying them with the same measure of alacrity that you would expect an officer to obey.”
Russian forces have struggled with widespread morale problems since the beginning of the invasion, according to this official, which is just one of numerous problems that has plagued the Russian military during this war.
Russian forces are also still facing logistics issues that are slowing their progress, according to the official.

If true, this could spread like wildfire.  IF.  I can see the rumor getting around and commanders finding reasons not to attack as ordered, creating some excuses for lack of movement, or perhaps letting it be known they shouldn't risk anything in any movement.  And this could be false information being spread by NATO to try and create this condition on the ground.