The Kremlin confirms that “if the US and NATO had put pressure on the regime in Kiev at the time”, the invasion would not have happened
Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stated that rockets and shelling on Ukrainian territory target facilities of an exclusively military nature. But the mass attacks of recent weeks – that of Tuesday, the largest since the beginning of the war, on February 24; and the one unleashed this Thursday – have hit civilian infrastructure, mainly energy, leaving tens of thousands of Ukrainians without electricity, water and heating.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has acknowledged that “the lack of electricity and heating in many regions of Ukraine is a result of the actions of the Kiev authorities, which refuse to negotiate”, to effectively capitulate if taken into account with the requirements. that Moscow has put on the table so far.
The presidential spokesman, in his usual daily appearance to the press, stated that the bombings “are carried out on infrastructure facilities directly or indirectly related to the military potential of Ukraine and the Ukrainian regime”. “The Ukrainian side lacks the will to solve the problem, to enter into negotiations, in addition to the attitude already shown to abandon the agreements already agreed in the text, something that should also be discussed,” Peskov said in reference on Thursday to the malfunction. contacts after the final failure of the negotiations on 29 March in Istanbul. Subsequently, the head of the Russian delegation, Vladimir Medinsky, made it clear that Moscow will never give up Crimea and Donbas, giving up any possibility of an agreement. Now the situation is worse, as Russia has annexed Kherson and Zaporizhia in addition to Donetsk and Lugansk.
In his teleconference address to the participants of the G-20 summit in Bali, President Volodimir Zelensky presented Ukraine’s proposals for peace with Russia, including 10 points; the most important, the withdrawal of Russian troops from all occupied territories in Ukraine, including Crimea. But he also called for radiological and nuclear safety, food and energy security, the release of all prisoners, restoration of the country’s territorial integrity, cessation of hostilities and reparations.
Russia’s response came on Tuesday with the most massive rocket fire since the invasion began, and the attacks continued on Thursday. Russia’s foreign ministry deemed Kiev’s terms for resuming peace talks “unacceptable”, while the head of the ministry, Sergei Lavrov, described Zelensky’s terms as “unrealistic”. Peskov assured that day that Zelensky’s statement “means that in reality he is unwilling or unable to negotiate anything,” implying that he is bound hand and foot by Washington. “So the Russian Federation will achieve its objectives by continuing the special military operation”, the euphemism by which the Russian authorities refer to the current war in Ukraine.
Zelensky suggested that, if there are any negotiations, they should be held in public and the spokesman for the Russian Presidency has assured that such a thing is “unimaginable” today. Peskov once again called on Washington to “push Kiev towards diplomacy”. “If the United States could take Russia’s concerns into account, it could encourage Kiev to return to the negotiating table if it wanted to,” he noted. Moreover, according to Peskov, “if the United States and NATO had put pressure on the regime in Kiev in their time and given guarantees that they would not commit another civil war and an attack on their own population in two already independent republics, then it would have been there was no special operation.”
“Washington says that had it not been for Russian bombing, the crash of a Ukrainian air defense S-300 in Poland would not have happened. But if you apply this logic, then we would have to look at the situation in a different direction and conclude that if the United States and the Alliance had not been completely unwilling to address Russia’s concerns, it would have been a special military operation. in Ukraine,” Peskov emphasized.
Source: La Verdad
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