““There is a lot of talk about negotiations, but this is an illusion” – Podoliak”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“There is a lot of talk about negotiations, but this is an illusion,” said the adviser to the head of the President’s Office and added that “there can be no negotiation process because Russia was not forced to pay a sufficiently high price for this war.”
On December 17, the head of the President’s Office, Andriy Yermak, stated that peace negotiations with Russia would become possible only when “Moscow does not have the resources to continue the war.”
The head of the OP reminded that on October 24, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi presented a “victory plan”, which fixed the position of Ukraine and “outlined the real mechanisms of ending the war and achieving a just peace”.
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Recently, Volodymyr Zelenskyi said that the Ukrainian army lacks the strength to liberate some territories temporarily occupied by Russia and that diplomatic solutions should be sought. And before that, in a conversation with Sky News, he allowed the end of the hot phase of the war on the condition that the government-controlled part of the Ukrainian territory will be taken under the NATO umbrella, which will allow him to later agree on the return of the occupied territories “by diplomatic means.”
These words of the President of Ukraine differ from the previous statements of the Ukrainian authorities, which stated that there will be no diplomatic solutions without returning to the borders of 1991.
Instead, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on December 6 that peace in Ukraine is possible only in the case of refusal of membership in NATO and the loss of part of the territories by Ukraine.
Talks about the possibility of negotiations to end the war intensified after the victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential election, as during the election campaign he promised to end the war in 24 hours.