Senior Russian negotiator: West prevented Ukraine’s peace from achieving

According to RCO News Agency, Vladimir Madinsky, a senior Russian negotiator and assistant president, said in an interview with Rashatodi’s News channel that Ukraine had an opportunity to reach an agreement with a more acceptable situation if he had not withdrawn from the negotiations.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 wanted to, it was ready and decided itself, we could have signed the peace treaty on February 7, and the terms of that agreement were less strict than what we propose today.”

Medinski went 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 agreement and, if signed, will not guarantee help or security.”

According to Russia’s senior negotiator and the president’s assistant, the Ukrainian negotiating delegation has repeatedly said, “We are fighting until 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 agreement 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 month, arguing that Kiev’s European allies would lead the country to act against its own interests.

Russia has called on Ukraine to recognize its new borders, abandon its plans to join NATO, and guarantee the rights of Russian minority.

Russian President 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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