Saudi Arabia; Putin’s desired place to hold a peace meeting with Ukraine

According to RCO News Agency, Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed Riyadh’s mediation between Moscow and Kyiv in a press conference on Friday.

In response to a Saudi reporter about Saudi Arabia’s mediation and the possibility of Russia attending a peace meeting between Russia and Ukraine in Saudi Arabia, he said: “In the eyes of Russia, Saudi Arabia is a friendly country.”

Putin also “praised” Riyadh’s “efforts” to mediate between Moscow and Kiev.

According to the report of the “Rashatudi” channel, the Russian president added: “If Saudi Arabia holds such a meeting, the venue will be convenient for us. But any final statement should be based on the draft reached during the 2022 talks in Türkiye.”

According to Putin, the Ukrainian delegation first approved a draft treaty that would make Ukraine a neutral country and limit its military capabilities, but then abruptly left the negotiating table. Officials in Kiev later said they did not trust the Russians and had been advised by Western leaders not to accept Moscow’s terms.

In September 2024, former US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland confirmed that Washington believes that the conditions offered to Ukraine during the Turkish negotiations are not a “good deal”.

On the other hand, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has since emphasized that peace will only be achieved based on Kyiv’s terms, including the return of Ukrainian territory to its 1991 borders. Moscow has also said that Zelensky’s so-called “peace formula” is unacceptable and that Kiev must recognize the new “territorial realities”.

Nevertheless, in a meeting on Friday with the heads of the official media of the BRICS member countries at his presidential residence in the suburbs of Moscow, the Russian president noted that Moscow is interested in establishing a lasting peace with Kiev and is not seeking to merely A temporary fire should be established.

According to Putin, Russia’s goal is to ensure its long-term security interests.

Putin stated: “When we talk about some kind of peace process, we should not look for a one-week, two-week, or one-year ceasefire process, so that during this time these NATO member countries that support Ukraine can rearm themselves and get new ammunition.” save.”

According to the Russian president, Moscow seeks to “reach the conditions of a stable, durable and long-term peace, which will ensure equal security for all participants in this difficult process.”

Last month, during negotiations in Turkey, the President of Russia said that Kiev is willing to declare its military neutrality, limit its armed forces and stop discrimination against Russians, and in return, Moscow along with other major world powers will introduce security guarantees to Ukraine. will do

“This document was not implemented because the Ukrainians were ordered not to implement it because the elites of the United States and some European countries wanted to impose a strategic defeat on Russia,” Putin said last month.

Last Wednesday, the president of Ukraine unveiled his so-called “victory plan” for war with Russia in a speech to the Ukrainian parliament. According to Zelensky, this plan does not include negotiations with Russia, but calls for the West to “strengthen Ukraine with the aim of reaching a diplomatic solution.”

Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman of the Kremlin, in response to this so-called victory plan of Zelensky, emphasized that this side is only a plan for the continuation of hostilities, and peace can only be achieved when the government of Kiev “comes to its senses” and the roots of the problem that led to the war to recognize

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