Senior Russian negotiator: West preveed Ukraine’s peace from achieving
A senior Russian negotiator and the preside’s assista said that if Kiev had not listened to his Western supporters, the Ukrainian clash, which has been going on for more than three years now, could have ended within a week.
According to RCO News Agency, Vladimir Madinsky, a senior Russian negotiator and assista preside, said in an ierview with Rashatodi’s News channel that Ukraine had an opportunity to reach an agreeme with a more acceptable situation if he had not withdrawn from the negotiations.
“Today, I say something that I probably never said publicly,” he told Rashatodi. “If Ukraine waed to, it was ready and decided itself, we could have signed the peace treaty on February 7, and the terms of that agreeme were less strict than what we propose today.”
Medinski we on to say that Ukrainian officials initially accepted Russian conditions but changed their way after consulting with the United States and Britain.
According to him, Ukrainian negotiators had told the Russian side that “our foreign partners do not support the agreeme and, if signed, will not guaraee help or security.”
According to Russia’s senior negotiator and the preside’s assista, the Ukrainian negotiating delegation has repeatedly said, “We are fighting uil you defeat or defeat you.”
David Arachimia, who led the Ukrainian negotiating team during the Istanbul -I talks, later confirmed that then British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had asked Kiev not to sign an agreeme with Russia.
But later, Arakhamia rejected the issue that Johnson’s opinion had affected the Ukrainian decision.
Johnson has also denied the fact that he pushed Kiev to exit the negotiations.
Medinski said the Ukrainian side had “less independence” when the direct talks were resumed in Istanbul last moh, arguing that Kiev’s European allies would lead the coury to act against its own ierests.
Russia has called on Ukraine to recognize its new borders, abandon its plans to join NATO, and guaraee the rights of Russian minority.
Russian Preside Vladimir Putin has also said that Ukraine and the West must have the roots of the conflict before reaching the ceasefire.
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