The Kremlin is ready to talk, but confirms that the conditions set by Biden, such as the previous withdrawal of the Russian army from all territories it occupies in Ukraine, are “unacceptable”.
With the war in Ukraine as the main point of discussion and the ways to stop it and reach a peace deal, Russian President Vladimir Putin responded this Friday to his American counterpart, Joe Biden, by speaking by phone with the German Foreign Minister Affairs, Olaf Scholz, who once again urged him to withdraw his troops from the neighboring country to allow for a diplomatic solution. But the Kremlin responded by raising its order: “President Putin has always been open to negotiations, but they have been complicated by Washington’s refusal to recognize Russia’s annexation of the Ukrainian territories.”
Coincidentally, in the company of French President Emmanuel Macron, Biden said the day before that he has no plans to meet with Putin to negotiate a negotiated settlement in Ukraine, as doing so would require him to “withdraw his troops from Ukraine.” the country that has been invaded”. Scholz asked the Russian top leader the same and also blamed him for the rocket attacks on civilian infrastructure that left Ukrainians without electricity and heating.
“Comprehensive political and financial support for Ukraine leads Kiev to completely reject the idea of negotiations. In addition, it encourages radical Ukrainian nationalists to commit more and more bloody crimes against the civilian population,” Putin snapped at the German chancellor, according to the website of the Russian presidency But Scholz was undeterred and said that “Germany will continue to guarantee Ukraine’s defensive capacity.” His Russian interlocutor deplored Berlin’s “destructive” policies and asked him to reconsider his position.
In addition, Putin explained to the German Chancellor that “Russian armed forces for a long time avoided attacking certain targets in Ukraine with high-precision missiles, but such measures became necessary and inevitable in the face of provocative attacks from Kiev.” According to his words, quoted by the Kremlin’s press office, Kiev bombed the Crimean bridge and “Russian energy facilities”, so according to Moscow, Russia has the right to attack Ukrainian energy infrastructures as well. The operator DTEK reported yesterday that Russian missiles have destroyed “40% of the Ukrainian energy system”.
Before Scholz’s call, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov had said that Putin is “ready to negotiate Ukraine” but the conditions set by Biden, i.e. the prior withdrawal of the Russian military from all areas who occupies it in Ukraine, in his opinion, “they are unacceptable, they complicate the dialogue.” For this reason, Peskov continued, “the military operation in Ukraine will continue.”
On September 30, in a solemn ceremony at the Kremlin, Russia annexed the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia. And it did not do so on the borders controlled by its troops, but on the administrative borders established in Soviet times, which Kiev still retains to a considerable extent. The Russian army is now fighting to at least fully occupy these four regions, as it did with Crimea in March 2014, while the Ukrainians fight to drive out the invader.
And it is that the annexation of the last four Ukrainian provinces, according to the US and its NATO allies, is another dangerous turn of Putin, not only for Ukraine as a state, but also for the world order established after World War II. . The Russian president relied on the results of referenda held in September in Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia, which were not recognized by anyone except himself and pro-Russian rebels.
Russia then warned Ukraine that continuing its counter-offensives to recapture the regions seized by force and occupied by the Russian army will be considered a direct attack on its “sovereignty”. mobilization”, your country will react with destruction. “When territorial integrity is threatened, Russia will use all the means at its disposal, including nuclear weapons. It’s not a bluff,” he warned.
What Moscow currently deplores most is the Western military aid to Ukraine, which, together with the fierce resistance of the Ukrainian army, has kept Russian troops for months with little progress, lost the Kharkiv region, forced Kherson to surrender, gave up ground in Luhansk and with the threat of a counter-offensive in Kiev to recapture the city of Melitopol, in the Zaporizhia region.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov yesterday intimidatingly warned that there is a “huge” risk that the war in Ukraine will escalate into a full-scale nuclear conflict. The Russian minister urged the nuclear powers to “avoid any military confrontation, even with conventional weapons”, as according to his calculations “the escalation could become uncontrollable” and lead to the use of nuclear weapons.
On Tuesday, as part of a meeting with NATO colleagues in Bucharest, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that “it is becoming increasingly difficult for Ukraine and Russia to agree on a solution to the conflict through dialogue” . In his opinion, “as the loss of life increases, it becomes more and more difficult to reach a negotiated solution.” While unsuccessful so far, Turkey has taken the lead in mediation efforts to get Kiev and Moscow to negotiate. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has repeatedly proposed a meeting between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who rejected first Moscow and now Kiev, conditional on the complete withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukrainian territory.
Source: La Verdad
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