{"id":1362279,"date":"2026-02-25T09:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/three-vectors-of-pressure-how-the-west-can-really-stop-putin\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T09:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:48:20","slug":"three-vectors-of-pressure-how-the-west-can-really-stop-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/three-vectors-of-pressure-how-the-west-can-really-stop-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Three vectors of pressure: how the West can really stop Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To force the Kremlin to negotiate, the Western world must simultaneously use three strategic areas of influence: diplomacy, economics, and weapons. Only under the threat of losing power can Russian dictator Vladimir Putin agree to stop the war.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Belgian diplomat Zenon Koval <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pmq2feF4cP0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expressed the opinion<\/a> on the air of &#8220;Pryamoye&#8221; that only the cumulative effect of sanctions and successes on the battlefield will force the Russian leadership to change its position.<\/p>\n<p> According to him, the first vector is the supply of weapons to Ukraine, which will allow to push back the invaders; the second is tough economic sanctions, which should block the possibilities for the functioning of the shadow fleet of Russia, and the third direction is diplomatic isolation and political pressure. Only under the threat of losing power can the Russian dictator agree to stop the war, &#8211; emphasizes the special adviser of the Embassy of Ukraine in Belgium.<\/p>\n<p> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pmq2feF4cP0&#038;t=911s<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/terror-and-debilitation-how-the-chekists-war-differs-from-the-generals-war\/\">Terror and \u201cdebilitation\u201d: how the Chekists\u2019 war differs from the generals\u2019 war<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p> &#8220;If you take these three vectors together: diplomacy, economics, and weapons, then you can pressure Russia to say, &#8216;Okay, we&#8217;re stopping.&#8217; We need to make the war too expensive,&#8221; Koval is convinced.<\/p>\n<p> The diplomat also noted that many Western negotiators do not know the deep history of relations between Ukraine and Russia, so without understanding the causes of the conflict, such as the Holodomor or the destruction of culture, it is difficult to build an effective strategy for ending the war.<\/p>\n<p> Recently, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that new peace talks between Ukraine, the United States and Russia <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/perehovory-za-uchasti-ukrainy-ssha-ta-rf-mozhut-vidbutysia-za-10-dniv-zelenskyy\/\">could take place in the near future<\/a> . He made the corresponding statement during a meeting of the \u201cCoalition of the Willing\u201d in Kyiv. According to the head of state, Ukraine wants to see Europe as a participant in the negotiation process.<\/p>\n<p> Recall that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/myrnyy-protses-mizh-ukrainoiu-i-rf-halmuiut-kliuchovi-rozbizhnosti-zmi\/\">previous rounds were held in the United Arab Emirates and Switzerland<\/a> . Kyiv and Moscow then called the negotiations productive, but the real result was limited to the exchange of prisoners of war.<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To force the Kremlin to negotiate, the Western world must simultaneously use three strategic areas of influence: diplomacy, economics, and weapons. Only under the threat of losing power can Russian dictator Vladimir Putin agree to stop the war. Belgian diplomat Zenon Koval expressed the opinion on the air of &#8220;Pryamoye&#8221; that only the cumulative effect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1362266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76885],"class_list":["post-1362279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1362279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1362266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}