Ukraine has submitted five key peace requirements to the United States, the British newspaper The Telegraph reported on Friday, who inspected the relevant document. It is said that Ukraine hopes that it will be able to exclude any formal international recognition of Russian sovereignty over the Crimean Peninsula or other occupied Ukrainian territories, from a possible peace agreement, He writes TASR.
Ukraine is under increasing pressure from US President Donald Trump to adopt territorial concessions, the BBC server has previously wrote. This week, Trump criticized his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Greeny for refusing to recognize the Russian occupation of Crimea, because it is contrary to the Ukrainian Constitution. Such an attitude, according to Trump, is harmful to peace negotiations with Russia and is an obstacle to a ceasefire agreement.
The first two points from the document referred to by The Telegraph focuses on it, to make any peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia “anchored in international law and not in surrender”. In this context, they are particularly warned of the possible invasion of China on Taiwan and The importance of clear “security guarantees” as prices for a possible agreement is emphasized, which would mean that Ukraine will resign the territory of Russia, even temporarily.
Another point of the British daily described as Attempted to recover control of negotiations from US President Donald Trump and return Ukraine to the core of the peace process.
The fourth point is a warning for both the USA and the fact that the confirmation of Russia’s control over Crimea, which illegally annexed in 2014, would allow him to threaten not only attacks on Ukraine, but also at the Black Sea allies within the Alliance – Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria.
In the fifth and last request of Kiev, it is clearly stated that Russia should not be able to use a peace agreement to force Ukraine to limit the size Her armed forces or military-industrial complex, added The Telegraph.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview with CBS News said that Moscow is still open to reach the end of the war in Ukraine, But in his words, the questions that need to be resolved – but did not specify what.
