Andrey Klimov, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on International Relations of the Russian Council of the Russian Federation, said that the peaceful resolution of the Ukrainian conflict can be discussed subject to two conditions. He said this in an interview ura.ru.
According to him, statements similar to the words of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky on the prohibition of negotiations with Russia and the words of the head of Eurodiplomacy Josep Borrell that the Russian Federation must be defeated on the battlefield should be rejected.
“As soon as these two positions are removed, it will be possible to talk about this topic,” said Klimov.
Dmitry Polyansky, Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, said in a previous statement that since the West, peace in Ukraine is far from being established. missing diplomatic efforts noted that all Western countries did was “provide weapons and start conflict”.
March 19 Russian President Vladimir Putin declarationRussia is open to a political-diplomatic settlement of the conflict in Ukraine. However, according to him, in April 2022, the peace talks were “absolutely” terminated by the Russian side.
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to organize a military special operation to protect Donbass, in response to a request for assistance from the heads of the LPR and DPR.
The decision to run the operation became the justification for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.