{"id":3001,"date":"2026-06-26T12:38:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3001"},"modified":"2026-06-26T12:38:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:38:20","slug":"russian-hawks-urge-putin-to-escalate-war-drop-us-talks-as-ukraine-strikes-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3001","title":{"rendered":"Russian hawks urge Putin to escalate war, drop US talks as Ukraine strikes deep"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div><div><ul><li>Summary<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div><\/div><\/div><div>MOSCOW, June 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Seething over Ukrainian drone strikes and angered by what they see as a failed U.S. promise to broker an end to the war on favourable terms, Russian hardliners \u200bare urging President Vladimir Putin to abandon diplomacy and escalate.<\/div><div>Calls for tougher measures are not new. Nationalist voices have long pressed for full mobilisation, \u200cthe destruction of Kyiv&#8217;s government quarter, the assassination of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and strikes on European drone factories. Some hawks have even called on the Kremlin chief to consider using tactical nuclear weapons.<\/div><div>But Ukraine&#8217;s deep strikes this month \u2014 targeting Moscow, St Petersburg and Crimea, as well as what Russia said were two deadly attacks on passenger buses \u2014 have sharpened and intensified those demands.<\/div><div>Analysts say the increasingly strident rhetoric \u200breflects growing unease over the reach and impact of Ukrainian drone attacks, and a broader debate about how Russia \u2014 with its vast territory \u2014 can defend itself \u200bwhile still pursuing its war aims in a conflict it launched in 2022.<\/div><div>&#8220;What else needs to happen before we start fighting for \u2060real? War means victory at any cost. The Ukrainians are at war, so they&#8217;re fighting with everything they&#8217;ve got,&#8221; said Konstantin Malofeyev, a nationalist tycoon, after a Ukrainian strike \u200bset fire to a Moscow oil refinery last week.<\/div><div>&#8220;Why are we not using nuclear weapons, which our forebears developed and stockpiled with the full might of the nation precisely for \u200bthis purpose?&#8221; he asked.<\/div><h2>CALLS TO ABANDON PEACE TALKS<\/h2><div>Some nationalist commentators have urged Moscow to adopt what they cast as Iran&#8217;s effective military and diplomatic tactics against the United States. The Obsessed by War blog, with over 650,000 followers, has called for rendering major Ukrainian cities unliveable through bombing. Others say it is time to abandon U.S.-brokered peace talks and pursue the outright destruction of the Ukrainian state.<\/div><div>&#8220;The \u200bstart of systematic air strikes on Moscow by the (Ukrainian) junta would have been impossible without the go-ahead from Washington. And why did Trump give Zelenskiy such a green light? \u200bThe answer is very simple \u2013 Iran had Trump by the balls, and he was forced to sign a humiliating agreement,&#8221; said nationalist blogger Yuri Baranchik, who has nearly 90,000 followers.<\/div><div>&#8220;Now he needs \u200cto take \u2060it out on someone quickly &#8230; So we&#8217;ve got no choice \u2013 either we&#8217;ll get the better of Trump, or he&#8217;ll get the better of us,&#8221; Baranchik said on Telegram.<\/div><div>Sources close to the Kremlin say Putin can tolerate such rhetoric. He sits atop a tightly-controlled political system he has built over 26 years and nationalist bloggers need to conform to certain rules.<\/div><div>Analysts say, however, that such statements can still complicate decision-making by inflaming public sentiment and raising expectations of a more expansive military campaign, even as Moscow still wants to keep the \u200bdoor open for a potential diplomatic solution.<\/div><h2>KREMLIN \u200bRESISTS HARDLINE PRESSURE<\/h2><div>So far, the Kremlin has \u2060resisted the hawks&#8217; calls to abandon negotiations, even though three senior government officials said this week that talks with the U.S. had gone nowhere and accused Washington of not following through on peace proposals it made at last year&#8217;s Putin-Trump summit in Alaska.<\/div><div>Putin has \u200balso avoided endorsing the nationalists&#8217; most extreme proposals, although the Defence Ministry in April pointedly published the addresses of factories in several \u200bEuropean countries it alleged \u2060made drones for Ukraine, in what appeared to be a warning they could be targeted.<\/div><div>Russia&#8217;s Foreign Ministry also signposted an escalation last month when it said Moscow intended to launch &#8220;systematic strikes&#8221; on military targets in Kyiv. Heavier bombing runs followed, including one in which a 1,000-year-old monastery in Kyiv was damaged.<\/div><div>For now, Putin appears confident in the current strategy. He told military academy graduates \u2060on Tuesday \u200bthat Russia was close to seizing the city of Kostyantynivka in eastern Ukraine, as part of its push \u200bto control the Donbas region.<\/div><div>He also said political forces in Europe who were hostile to Russia looked likely to be eclipsed by rivals he cast as more reasonable.<\/div><div>&#8220;Those who want to restore normal relations with us, \u200bto stop this endless drive for a strategic defeat of Russia, are on the rise,&#8221; said Putin. &#8220;It&#8217;ll all work out in the end.&#8221;<\/div><div><address><div><div><noscript>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Andrew Osborn\" class=\"wp-image-833\" src=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1002ae888a149dcc495a9d26b604f9c9.avif\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/noscript><\/div><div>Andrew Osborn<\/div><\/div><div><ul><li><span><div><svg><title>Email<\/title><\/svg><\/div><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/address><\/div><\/div><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2999\">Volkswagen weighs up to 100,000 job cuts, four plant closures in overhaul, sources say<\/a><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2997\">Traffic through Strait of Hormuz slows after attack on ship<\/a><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2996\">Iran insists on right to control shipping in Strait of Hormuz after ship hit near Oman<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seething over Ukrainian drone strikes and angered by what they see as a failed U.S. promise to broker an end to the war on favourable terms, Russian hardliners \u200bare urging President Vladimir Putin to abandon diplomacy and escalate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-3001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-europe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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