Russia talks confirms that peace deal could have been reached in spring 2022 if Ukraine agreed to neutrality
Russia talks confirms that peace deal could have been reached in spring 2022 if Ukraine agreed to neutrality
Now head of Zelensky party faction in Ukrainian parliament & head of Ukrainian delegation in Ukraine-Russia talks confirms that peace deal could have been reached in spring 2022 if Ukraine agreed
by Ivan Katchanovski on Thread Reader November 25, 2023
Now head of Zelensky party faction in Ukrainian parliament & head of Ukrainian delegation in Ukraine-Russia talks confirms that peace deal could have been reached in spring 2022 if Ukraine agreed to neutrality.
He said that Russia was ready to end the war in such case and that Ukrainian neutrality was main Russian condition. He also confirmed that Western countries told Zelensky not to sign peace deal. He said that Russia was ready to end war in such case & that Ukrainian neutrality was main Russian condition. He also confirmed that Western countries knew everything concerning peace talks & told Zelensky not to sign peace deal & that British PM (Boris) Johnson during his visit told them to continue fighting.
To original interview in Ukrainian: to X trasnmissions please connect to the link of the original article at the bottom of this post.
When asked why Ukraine did not agree, he replied that for this, firstly, it was necessary to change the Constitution, and secondly, there is no trust in the Russians that they will do this. He also said that Boris Johnson came to Kyiv then and said that he did not want to sign anything with the Russians and “let’s just fight.”
It should be noted that the media previously repeatedly reported that the Ukrainian authorities refused to sign the agreement in the spring of 2022 after negotiations with Johnson. And now, as we see, Arakhamia has actually confirmed this.
Let us recall that according to media reports, Putin in the spring of 2022 was ready to withdraw troops to the line on February 24 in exchange for the neutral status of Ukraine. And former German Chancellor Schröder, who participated in the negotiations , stated that Putin even agreed to return Donbass to Ukraine with a special status.
At the same time, Ukraine soon withdrew from the negotiations. And Zelensky announced an official course for war before reaching the 1991 borders.”
Translation of interview by Davyd Arakhamiia, head of Zelensky faction in Ukraine parliament & head of Ukrainian delegation at peace talks with Russia: “They really hoped almost to the last moment that they would force us to sign such an agreement so that we would take neutrality. It was the most important thing for them. They were prepared to end the war if we agreed to, – as Finland once did, – neutrality, and committed that we would not join NATO.
In fact, this was the key point. Everything else was simply rhetoric and political ‘seasoning’ about denazification, the Russian-speaking population and blah-blah-blah…
Moreover, when we returned from Istanbul, Boris Johnson came to Kyiv and said that we would not sign anything with them at all, and let’s just fight.”
Arakhamiia added that Western partners knew about the negotiations and saw drafts of documents, but did not attempt to make a decision for Ukraine, but rather gave advice.
“They actually advised us not to go into ephemeral security guarantees [with the Russians – ed.], which could not have been given at that time at all,” said Arakhamiia, who headed the negotiating delegation.”
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MY COMMENT:
This is what I have been saying for months in my articles (in Portuguese): the responsibility for this insane war lies with the West, with NATO, which, financed by the Military-Industrial Complex, needed a war to produce weapons again after four years of peace of the Trump Administration. This is also the explanation for the shameful withdrawal from Afghanistan led by the corrupt Biden, leaving millions in weapons for the Taliban as it was necessary to replenish weapons stocks for the profits of the arms industry.
And what we see today is the result of the disregard for the Ukrainian people who serve as cannon fodder - those who cannot escape - and are gradually being left to fend for themselves in a war already considered lost. But who cares about the Ukrainian people?
From what David Arakhamiia reveals, the Ukrainian mission in the peace talks was willing to make peace, but was definitively discouraged by the West through the scoundrel Boris Johnson.
It is with good reason that Ukrainians are highly suspicious of Russia after the genocide remembered yesterday (fourth Saturday of November), the Holodomor, the death from hunger and despair of approximately seven million Ukrainians, but the West knew how to exploit this distrust very well and feed it even more.
Putin was prepared in spring 2022 to end the war and, according to German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, would accept the return of Dombass (Donetsk and Bahkmut) to Ukraine.
NATO, which should have been disbanded with the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, always lied to Gorbachëv and Yeltsin by ensuring them that it would not expand to the border with Russia while, using what it learned from Lenin - "accuse them of what you are doing" - created the myth of Russian expansion largely based on the delusional ideas of Aliesandr Dugin, which have more repercussions in Iberoamerica in groups as delusional, as they do in Russia itself. Such theories are not even original because in geopolitical terms they are repetitions of Halford Mckinder (The Geographical Pivot of History) added to lies and more lies supposedly about the "spiritual" greatness of Rodina (Родина), the Russian motherland which would be the true guardian of Western religious values that are being destroyed in the West. Although this is true, Putin uses Dugin's delusions to win the hearts and minds of Western youth who believe they are conservative and have no hope and see Rodina as filling their emptiness.