Sergei Markov writes:

Malta. There was a big conference on Ukraine. Russian media unanimously write that Zelensky failed there. But that’s not true.
This is not a meeting, this is a process, this is a project. And he has several tasks that he performs.
1. Create a platform for permanent dialogue between the Collective West and the Global South on the Ukrainian crisis. In order to at some point use this platform in the interests of the Collective West, forcing the Global South to join this. 2. Institutionalize this platform. Make it essentially an organization.
3. Put the US plan, which they formally gave to Zelensky, at the center of the discussions, calling it “Zelensky’s peace plan.” Although this is not Zelensky’s plan, and not peace, but the surrender of Russia.
4. So far they have succeeded. The third big meeting took place. And there will be a 4th.
5. There were 15 countries in Copenhagen. In Jida there are already 43. In Malta there are already 66.
6. 5 working groups have been created in the areas of the “Zelensky plan” and discussions are taking place there. That is, it is already a permanent organization with its own structure.
7. All these discussions are strictly anti-Russian. For example, there is a safety group at Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant. It seems like what is there to discuss? It is clear to everyone that the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant has one security threat – nuclear terrorism from Zelensky. But they are discussing, as you understand, something else – how to gradually transfer control over the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant to the Kyiv regime using cunning tricks.
8. The fact that China and Egypt did not participate is good. But these are temporary difficulties of the project. 9. Overall, this US effort is going well.
10. Trying to portray the enemy’s success as a failure is not the path to victory.
11. One of the goals of this format for the United States is, if the Russian army begins an offensive, to organize enormous pressure on Russia with the participation of these 66 countries, including the Global South, to demand that Russia stop the offensive and conclude “Minsk 3.”
12. We need to prepare for such a turn, and not convince ourselves that they are a failure. Unfortunately, they are not a failure.
13. Remember how we spent 8 years telling ourselves fairy tales that the Kiev regime was about to collapse? Collapsed? Don’t lie to yourself.