Putin will end this war in a week (If Ukraine agrees with Putin's Terms) or He is Planning to create a Buffer zone to start an endless war against kyiev to test Ukranian citizens patience for Zelenesky Govt. And this job is best suited for Syrian mercenaries aka Bashar's army. So that europe and nato can not go soulder by shoulder with ukraine.
Putin wants to remind the people of ukraine that Western Freedom is all about doing business of weapons.
I can't see Zelensky agreeing on Putin terms knowing the shit performance of the Russian army on the ground, if anything everyday the larger the losses is for the Russians the lower the chance for Putin to decide agreements on their own terms.
Putin is desperate, his army that people like
@blackjack propagate could steamroll Europe are already proven as a joke, day by day their casualties mount, their logistics are stretched thin, their aviation are being downed. Now there are reports that Russia is seeking China's help not even 3 weeks into the war.
We haven't even enter the urban battle phases yet, where Russian logistics will be even more precarious as urban warfare consume 6 times the amount of munitions it would take compared to open field battles. Kyiv for example is a city of 3 million people, a complex network of subway and a river in a middle of it. That's a very complex terrain to seize.
Those 16K bashar mercenaries Putin threaten to send from Syria ? Yeah I bet the rebels in Idlib as well as ISIS in the Badia desert would welcomes that moves as well. Not to mention the question if they could withstand the European winter.