Russian ex-president Dmitry Medvedev has confidence in victory in the war of aggression against Ukraine. Moscow will achieve all its goals in Ukraine, the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council said on his Telegram channel. “There will be peace – on our terms,” he wrote, at the same time warning the EU and the US that the terms of these “confused political powerless” would never be met.
An adviser to the ruler Putin also promises the government in Kiev tougher conditions than before if peace talks resume. Yuri Ushakov complained on Monday that concrete results had been achieved in the negotiations in Turkey in March before Kiev broke off contact. “So if negotiations resume now, it will be on very different terms.”
No negotiations since the end of April
Ushakov gave no details. After the negotiations, Russian troops withdrew north of Kiev, also amid fierce military resistance from the Ukrainians. As a result, mass graves of civilians were discovered in the small town of Bucha, among other things. Since then, there have been no new peace talks.
As early as February, Putin had stated that the goals of the war against Ukraine, still referred to in Moscow as a “special military operation”, the “denazification” and “demilitarization” of Ukraine, its neutral status, the transfer of the Donetsk regions and Luhansk and the recognition of Crimea, which has been annexed since 2014, has been called Russian. With these demands Moscow entered the negotiations.
Residents want to create facts
However, Russian forces have also occupied parts of the Zaporizhzhya region of southeastern Ukraine and almost the entire Kherson region in the south. The pro-Russian government deployed there has long talked about plans to hold referendums on Russia’s accession. A Russian force commander has also cited the construction of a Russian corridor along the Black Sea coast to the Transnistria conflict zone in the neighboring Republic of Moldova as a war target.
Source: Krone
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