# Winter is coming: Putin seeks to 'hammer Ukrainians, their power grid, their water supplies'

https://mins.news/en/video/141900

- France 24 English, 2026-11-13 07:44 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVOcgtfNuUs

> Diplomatic efforts to end Russia’s war on Ukraine have resumed, but a negotiated settlement remains unlikely amid Russia’s irreconcilable territorial demands, competing visions of European security and an increasingly unpredictable, pro-Moscow US approach to mediation. Russia expert Mark Galeotti says Moscow’s maximalist…

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