Two of the demands hardly pass in the sieve of Volodymyr Zelensky
One of Vladimir Putin’s leading advisers and one of the members of the Russian entourage who has been in negotiations with Ukraine warned that stopping conflict without real peace agreements can lead to a risk of nuclear war.
But this was just a small warning placed through the various demands Russia has to negotiate, and that Putin’s main face has now unveiled.
In an interview with Vladimir Medinsky, who has been between Moscow and Istanbul to discuss peace, said that the terms negotiated are now more serious than those of 2022.
Thus, and according to itself, Russia has the following requirements:
- Ukraine refuses to enter the NATO;
- The Orthodox Church and Russian language must exist in Ukraine in equal terms;
- Recognition of the results of the referendum in Crimea;
- Leave the two Donbass regions that do not want to be part of Ukraine.
“We finally came to agreement for the first time in Istanbul. We prepared a treaty, I remember as if it were today: 19 pages, very detailed. There were even nuances for the words to realize the same way in Russian, Ukrainian and English. On April 15 President Putin looked at the treaty and made one or two corrections. He is a professional lawyer,” he added.
It will be difficult to imagine that Ukraine accepts all these conditions, namely the territorial concessions of Crimea, but also of Lugansk and Donetsk. New is the absence of Zaporizehzia and Kherson of these words, as there are also two Ukrainian regions partially occupied by Russia and were illegally attached by Moscow in 2022.
Returning back, precisely at 2022, Medinsky accuses Volodymyr Zelensky of being silent for two weeks after receiving a document from Russia. By this time he received the visits from Boris Johnson, Joe Biden and other leaders, according to the Russian.
Moscow’s understanding is that the Ukrainians just did not go on with the peace agreement because foreign partners said so.
Moreover, and always according to Putin’s envoy, there was reluctance in the eyes of the Ukrainian negotiators to continue the war and to send more soldiers to death.
This is because, according to Medinsky, it is Ukraine that needs to continue the war: “Russia does not need war at all. [A guerra] It is necessary for the leadership of Ukraine. They need a permanent enemy and war to stay in power forever. ”
