Russia poses its conditions to open negotiations. The chief of Russian diplomacy, Sergei Lavrov, made this Monday, April 28, several prior requests for the opening of discussions for peace in Ukraine, in particular the surrender of Ukraine, his demilitarization, his renunciation to join NATO and also the assurance of keeping the Crimean Peninsula, annexed in 2014, and the four Ukrainian regions that Moscow 2022.
“International recognition of the membership of Crimea, Sevastopol, the People’s Republic of Donetsk, the People’s Republic of Lougansk, the Kherson region and that of Zaporijia to Russia is imperative,” said Sergei Lavrov at the Brazilian media The globeaccording to a Russian translation of his interview broadcast on Monday by his ministry.
Since he ordered his army to attack Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the Russian president Vladimir Putin maintains maximalist conditions to achieve the end of the conflict in his favor. The master of the Kremlin judges that time plays in his favor, with a Ukrainian army in difficulty on the front and the will displayed by the American president Donald Trump, whose country was until then the main support for kyiv, to put an end as quickly as hostilities, even if it means accepting an unfavorable agreement for the Ukrainians.
Moscow wants to discuss, kyiv judges unacceptable requests
In this context, and despite its requests deemed unacceptable by kyiv and its Western alliesVladimir Putin almost daily is ready to be ready for peace discussions. Monday, his spokesperson, Dmitri Peskov, repeated Moscow’s “will” to chat with kyiv. “The will of the Russian party has already been affirmed repeatedly, affirmed by the president (Putin), that of starting a process of negotiations with Ukraine without prerequisite to achieve a peaceful outcome,” he said, quoted by the State press agency Tass.
This comment comes two days after the words of Donald Trump issuing doubts about the real intentions of Vladimir Putin: “Perhaps (that) he does not want to stop war and he walks me,” he wrote on his social social network. The Kremlin speech contrasts especially with the daily rhetoric of Vladimir Putin, supported by Sergei Lavrov this Monday, according to which Only Ukraine’s defeat will be acceptable to Moscow.
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