Stanislav Krapivnik: The Peace Push, the Corruption Crisis & Ukraine's Winter Without Patriots

Negotiations were frozen for eight months. Witkoff and Kushner finally made it to Moscow — three hours with Putin at the Kremlin, followed by dinner. The Kremlin called it "constructive." Then the envoys took the train to Kiev for their first ever visit to the Ukrainian capital. Zelensky said after the talks that he expects the war to continue and is counting on US support for winter. Putin ordered a 72-hour strike pause on Kiev to enable the visits. Russia kept hitting everywhere else throughout, and last night strikes resumed on Kiev.

Meanwhile Zelensky's problems don't end there. Kiev is imploding from within. Operation "Carthage" — NABU's investigation into a criminal organisation inside the Prosecutor General's Office — has in the space of four days moved from a probe into scam call centre protection schemes to touching Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko himself. The investigation into the PG and Zelensky's tightest allies is widely seen as a push to strip Zelensky of his political dominance.

We break it all down with Stanislav Krapivnik, friend of the show and one of the sharpest voices covering the SMO.

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