"Putin will not agree to peace": Volker pointed to "missing component" in negotiations (video)

He said this when communicating with the participants of the Kiev Security Forum on May 8, the focus correspondent reports. "Vladimir Putin will never agree to peace. Vladimir Putin does not believe that Ukraine is a sovereign independent state, does not believe that Ukraine exists as an independent nation, and he will constantly try to destroy it," said the American diplomat.

Volker noted that the Russian dictator believes that the Russian Federation has the right to the whole Ukrainian territory and calls it "Russian land". "He believes that Russia has the right to manage other people as Georgians, Ossetians or Chechens. He does not even think that Ukrainians are a separate people. He believes that they are" confused "by the Russians he should correct," the expecress of the State Department said.

According to Volker, Putin will never attempt to destroy Ukraine, and Ukraine will never cease to resist and fight for its existence. Europe at the same time "clearly sees" that Russia will be a threat to it if it is allowed to succeed in the Russian-Ukrainian war. He summed up that there is no peace and can never be on a negotiating table with Putin, but it is necessary to achieve such an agreement that would stop the Kremlin from repeated aggression in the future.

Volker noted that, in his view, the Trump administration put a lot of pressure on Ukraine in peace talks on a 30-day and constant ceasefire, a mineral agreement that would allow the United States to support Kiev without raising money from US taxpayers. However, the "missing component" in the peace process is a sufficient pressure on Putin in order to stop the war against Ukraine, the US exprosiver says. "And there was no such pressure on Russia to tink it to the truce.

It must be changed," the diplomat said. In his opinion, secondary sanctions for trade with Russia and the Landliz Program for Ukraine need to be imposed for this purpose. Recall that the previous US President Joe Biden in the published May 7 interviews also emphasized that Putin believes that he has historical rights to Ukrainian lands. He called the pressure of the Trump administration on Ukraine in the peaceful process "the modern manner of peace, which will not stop the Russian aggressor.