Peace looks elusive in Ukraine, as the fighting continues and Russia maintains all its positions, the former director general of European Union military staff Lieutenant General David Leakey says.
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00:00The latest we're hearing is that Russia launched more than 170 drones at Ukraine overnight.
00:05Ukraine launched more than 130 drones at Russia overnight.
00:09I mean, peace looks as elusive as it's ever looked, doesn't it?
00:14It does. Both the facts on the ground, you've just pointed out these attacks that have taken place,
00:19and also confrontations on the ground, exchanges of artillery fire and frontline fighting.
00:25And also, in the political umbrella that hangs over all of this, or sits over all of this,
00:33President Putin appears to not to have conceded any of his political ambitions for prosecuting this war at all.
00:42In fact, most of the conditions he's set down are ones that protect his ability to continue prosecuting the war
00:50and deny the Ukrainians the opportunity, the sovereign opportunity, to defend their sovereign territory.
00:56So, I think the prospects for a peace are quite elusive at the moment and a long way off.
01:04And the prospects for a ceasefire also seem to be quite a long way off.