“China and the countries of the Global South want to create a “Friends of Peace” platform, which aims to “play a constructive role in the political settlement of the Ukrainian issue””, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“She will not affect anything. There are no “friends of peace”. These are “friends of surrender.” They offer all these “peace initiatives” that are exclusively based on the concept of the Russian Federation. That is, let’s stop the war immediately, leave the Russian Federation in the occupied territories and prevent the Russian Federation from losing the war…” Podolyak stressed.
The adviser to the head of the OP noted that “these are not “peaceful initiatives” – they are capitulatory initiatives.”
“It can be camouflaged, as Russian propaganda constantly does… Once again. I will record clearly. There is only Zelensky’s peace formula, where everything is clearly based on international law. The Russian Federation does not want any peace, it wants an end to the war, but it also wants an operational pause. Therefore, there cannot be any peaceful initiatives, except Ukrainian ones,” he stressed.
China and the countries of the Global South want to create a “Friends of Peace” platform, which aims to “play a constructive role in the political settlement of the Ukrainian issue.”
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi in his speech at the UN General Assembly said that if anyone in the world is looking for alternatives to any of the points of the Ukrainian Peace Formula or tries to ignore any of them, it probably “means that they themselves want to do part of that , what Putin is doing.”
“And when the Chinese-Brazilian duo tries to grow into a chorus of voices – with someone in Europe, with someone in Africa, saying something alternative to full and fair peace, the question arises – what is the real interest? Everyone should understand that you will not increase your power at the expense of Ukraine. The world has already gone through colonial wars and conspiracies of great powers at the expense of smaller ones. Every country – including China, Brazil, countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East – all understand why this should be a thing of the past,” he said on September 25.
China says it is neutral in Russia’s war against Ukraine, but has been criticized for refusing to condemn Moscow over its full-scale invasion in February 2022 and for its ties to Russia.