US diplomacy has privately requested that the possibility of negotiating a peace agreement be left open “Fatigue over Ukraine is a reality for some of our partners”, admit members of the US government. They do not rule out that Zelensky will support the reopening of negotiations once Once winter has arrived, US diplomacy has privately asked the Ukrainian government to leave open the possibility of negotiating a peace agreement with Russia to convince allied countries that the war in Ukraine is not becoming entrenched and there is an exit option, according to Sources close to the negotiations have explained to the ‘Washington Post’. “Fatigue over Ukraine is a reality for some of our partners,” a US official on condition of anonymity has acknowledged to the media. However, the US government has also transferred to kyiv his conviction that none of the Russian offers to negotiate have any credibility given their exaggerated s demands, which practically amount to an unconditional surrender and the implicit recognition of Russian sovereignty over the Ukrainian territories that have been incorporated. In fact, at the end of September, after the Russian annexations, the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelensky, declared “it ” negotiate with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. “We will negotiate with the new president,” he said in a speech. However, US officials consulted by the newspaper do not rule out the possibility that Zelensky will support the possibility of reopening the negotiations once winter arrives, when low temperatures make it practically impossible the fighting and a window for diplomacy is opened. For now, and given the Ukrainian advances in Kherson and last week’s possible attack on the port of Sevastopol, US officials are now wondering if Ukraine intends to launch offensives in the Crimean peninsula, a strategy that could end up burying all expectations of a peace agreement given the strategic importance that this territory, incorporated into Russia since 2014, represents for the Kremlin. “Some of the G7 countries that have called for a just and negotiated peace see a possible turning point if Ukrainian forces move closer to Crimea,” according to the before the diary.