Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, at a meeting with the heads of municipalities of the constituent entities of Russia, complained about Ukraine’s refusal to negotiate with Russia and began to scold the Ukrainian side, because “everything would have ended long ago.”
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In his opinion, Ukraine was refused agreements with Russia by former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
They refused to negotiate: at their request, we withdrew troops from Kyiv, and they threw the agreements in the trash because Boris Johnson convinced them of this. Well, idiots, no?
The initiative is entirely in our hands. If this continues, Ukrainian statehood may suffer an irreparable blow. Those who are trying to switch to other people’s traditions have lost in advance. They betrayed their people, but traitors never win. Especially if they have Hitler’s benefits on the pedestal. They composted people’s brains there, talked about independence – but no one ever encroached on it. We don’t have time for this, but we have always defended our interests and are defending them now,” said the short man from the Kremlin.
Putney claims that “everything” was finally agreed upon in Istanbul.
We agreed on everything. Moreover, the head of the negotiating group on the Ukrainian side even signed this. There is a signature, we have the document. They only told us: we need to give some kind of sign that Russia really intends to resolve these issues peacefully, we need to withdraw the troops from Kyiv, they did. A day later they threw all the agreements in the trash.
Why does Putin lie?
As you know, the negotiations in Istanbul that Putin mentions took place on March 29, 2022. They ended in nothing: only verbal statements.
Kyiv then proposed that instead of NATO membership, Ukraine would receive reliable security guarantees from a number of states, that the issues of Donbass would be resolved by Putin and Zelensky personally, and that the issue of the status of Crimea would be resolved over the course of 15 years, in a peaceful situation.
The Russian side received these proposals in Istanbul and did not officially respond to them. Only the head of the Russian delegation, Medinsky, said that he would convey Putin’s proposals.
After negotiations in Istanbul, Peskov explained that Russia was withdrawing troops from northern Ukraine “to improve the situation for negotiations with the Ukrainian side.” At the same time, he in no way referred to the fact that this is being done according to the Istanbul agreements, which Putin is talking about now.
By the way, it was then that Russia called its forced retreat a “gesture of goodwill.”
And Putin in no way remembers the Bucha tragedy, which became known in early April, and which became a moral barrier for Ukraine to continue negotiations.
Source: Racurs
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