Petr Pavel says most likely outcome of war is that parts of Ukraine will be left under Russian occupation. In an earlier post, we mentioned that the Kremlin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, was asked what Russia’s response to a possible decision by the west to allow Ukraine to strike deep into Russia with western missiles would be.

"To talk about a defeat of Ukraine or defeat of Russia, it will simply not happen. So the end will be somewhere in between," Czech President Petr Pavel told The New York Times.

The withdrawal of Russian occupying troops from the sovereign territory of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders is one of the mandatory points of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's Peace Formula,