The Kremlin is ready for negotiations with Ukraine only under the conditions of its surrender - ISW

Russia will only refer to the concept of "peace plans" and "negotiations" in order to encourage the West to press on Ukraine so that it will make preventive concessions about its own sovereignty and territorial integrity, analysts say. The Kremlin continues to publicly demonstrate its lack of interest in any peaceful settlement, except for the complete surrender of the Ukrainian authorities and the destruction of the Ukrainian state.

This is stated in the report of the American Institute of War Study on September 23. Analysts refer to an interview with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky New Yorker on the Victory Plan of Ukraine, published on September 22, where he stated that Russia is not interested in terminating the war on all reasonable conditions and is interested in negotiations.

According to Zelensky, Ukraine invited the Russian Federation to take part in the second peaceful summit of Ukraine, but the Kremlin was not interested in it. On September 22, the Kremlin Prescribe Dmitry Peskov said that "there is no alternative" to the victory of Russia in Ukraine, confirming Russia's reluctance to negotiate on other conditions other than Ukraine's surrender. Peskov also called NATO and the West a "collective enemy".

The spokesman for the Russian Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova has recently announced that Russia will not participate in the second Ukrainian peaceful summit or any "similar summits".

"Isw continues to evaluate that the Kremlin is not interested in bona fide peace talks from Ukraine and that the Kremlin will only refer to the concept of" peace plans "and" negotiations "to encourage the event to press on Ukraine so that it will make preventive concessions about sovereignty and territorial integrity ", - says ISW analysts.