"The Russian Federation has deceived us in 30 years": Ukraine needs a just peace, not his Russian version - Politico
About it writes the American edition of Politico. According to Samuel Charapa and Sergey Radchenko, the authors of the artign policy, and the fact that the warring parties have been able to draw up a project of a peace treaty, "refutes the idea that neither Ukraine nor Russia wants to negotiate or consider compromises, compromises, nor Russia. to put an end to this war.
" Putin was probably ready to agree with Ukraine's accession to the EU, they called "extraordinary", especially against the backdrop of what he demanded from his former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych to abandon the Association Agreement with the EU in 2013. But the authors of the publication in The Wall Street Journal noted that the war in Ukraine could end in 2022 on punitive conditions for Kiev.
After agreeing to the requirements of the Russian Federation, Ukraine would become a "castrated state". In the same spirit, some representatives of Kiev, who were talking, spoke in a comment to Politico reporters. In Ukraine, in 2022, the negotiation position was very weak, and Western allies were thinking about how much Ukraine should support, discussing what weapons to supply Kiev.
"Remember, President Zelensky was at the Munich Conference on Security a few days before Russia has fallen," said former Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov. "I was a delegation with him in Munich. And there was such an atmosphere that, Like, "guys, you need to give up. " According to him, representatives of the Russian Federation can sign documents, but another question - whether they will follow the arrangements.
"Remember the Budapest Memorandum [signed by Russia in 1994, which recorded the borders of Ukraine and recognized sovereignty in exchange for the refusal of the nuclear arsenal]. France President Francea Mitterran refused to sign up under the document and warned our president [Leonid Kuchma. , they will cheat you, "Reznikov said. " Kuchma told me this story. After 30 years, the Russians did this - they deceive us, " - added the former head of the Ministry of Defense.
At the negotiations in Istanbul Rennikov remembered the story of Kuchma in 2022. According to other Ukrainian loopers, warnings from the USA and the United Kingdom sounded in The tone of Mitterrane. Ermak noted. Naive, the journalists said. Negotiations helped Moscow save the Syrian President Bashar Assad from defeat and persuade US President Barack Obama to remove his finger from the trigger, ignore his red line - the use of chemical weapons.
According to the adviser to the head of OP Mikhail Podolyak, the lesson drawn from the 2022 negotiations is that Russia is interested in the long war, to say the tired Western countries: "Everything, let's look for some compromise decision. " "We have reached the point when it will no longer be able to sit and negotiate. Why? Because this war is not for the territory of Ukraine. This is a war for the rules by which we will live with you, and Russia will live.