{"id":436963,"date":"2026-08-26T23:40:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T16:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/putin-said-to-plan-ukraine-escalation-after-seeing-talks-as-fruitless-436963\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T16:40:05","slug":"putin-said-to-plan-ukraine-escalation-after-seeing-talks-as-fruitless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/putin-said-to-plan-ukraine-escalation-after-seeing-talks-as-fruitless-436963\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin said to plan Ukraine escalation after seeing talks as fruitless"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The CIA visit to Moscow yesterday led to some optimism about a thawing or potential deal. Instead, we&#8217;re getting a further cycle of escalation that follows rumors of 300,000 more Russians set to be drafted.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, oil is higher on this report and it&#8217;s hard to see this war ever ending.<\/p>\n<p>The Bloomberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-08-26\/putin-moves-to-escalate-war-in-ukraine-with-talks-at-dead-end\" rel=\"follow\">report<\/a> says:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Russia is preparing to escalate attacks on Ukraine after concluding that<br \/>\n negotiations for a peace deal have reached a dead end, according to<br \/>\nthree people close to the Kremlin. For now, Russia is weighing an intensification of powerful conventional<br \/>\nballistic missile attacks on Kyiv, including the center of the capital,<br \/>\nand infrastructure targets in other Ukrainian cities, the people said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is obviously being leaked to put pressure on for concessions but the report says that negotiating frameworks have collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CIA visit to Moscow yesterday led to some optimism about a thawing or potential deal. Instead, we&#8217;re getting a further cycle of escalation that follows rumors of 300,000 more Russians set&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}