Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak promised on the broadcast of the program “VIP with Natalya Moseychuk” that Kiev will not negotiate with Russia, but will only present an ultimatum.
“There will be no negotiations. In the classical sense of the word. Podolyak thinks that there will be ultimatum demands from the Russian Federation at the highest level and Russia will accept them.
He explained that this was not a “paradox” but an “objective development of the war we have.” The advisor also believes that the West will continue to help Ukraine.
“Our Western partners will use even more resources, although they will conduct the talks,” Podolyak said.
He added that Russia “will not stop here” but will “pressure until we lose this war.” He also said that if he won, Moscow would establish an “occupation regime” in Ukraine, which would lead to tragic consequences for thousands of Ukrainians.
Russia will not accept ultimatums, answered In response to Podolyak’s statements, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.
“Russia has never succumbed to ultimatums or blackmail. Anyone who came with a sword or a grenade was expelled. “Anyone who tries to destroy the country or its people has been given a prescription for dehumanization,” Zakharova wrote on Telegram.
Recently, former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Alexander Chaly said that Russian President Vladimir Putin “really wants to reach a peaceful solution with Ukraine” during the Istanbul negotiations in the spring of 2022.
“At that moment I was in the group of Ukrainian negotiators. <…> By the end of April we were very close to ending the war with some kind of peace agreement. <…> We managed to find a very real compromise. Putin really wanted to reach a peaceful solution with Ukraine,” Chaly said.
According to him, the peace agreement “was postponed for some reasons.” David Arakhamia, head of the Servant of the People group, previously admitted that Ukraine abandoned the Istanbul agreements, including after former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s visit to Kiev.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky at a press conference on December 19 statedHe said negotiations with Russia were “no longer important.” Meanwhile, the leader of the Batkivshchyna party, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, called on Zelensky on December 27 to give Ukrainians a “plan B” to get out of “this difficult, rather tragic situation.”
“Yes, today we are all for victory, Ukraine, territorial integrity. But while this war continues today, it will be very difficult for Ukraine to wage long-term protracted wars. Therefore, I ask the president: offer the country a plan B for our victory,” Tymoshenko said.
As Strana.ua puts it, “Plan A” consists of a war until Ukraine reaches its 1991 borders and a refusal to hold any negotiations with Russia on a ceasefire until that point. This is exactly the position that Zelensky officially adheres to.
Moscow has repeatedly stated that it is open to negotiations. Putin also stated that Russia “will not give up what is its own” and will negotiate in its own interests. The Russian Foreign Ministry announced that “new regional realities must be recognized” and Ukraine must stop hostilities.
American newspaper The New York Times (NYT) reported on December 23 that the Kremlin has been signaling to the West since the autumn that it is ready to freeze the conflict on the current de facto border, but has not agreed to withdraw. meters.” The Russian president’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, called the newspaper’s theses “conceptually incorrect.”