Tasnim News Agency – Dec 16, 2023
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said multiple Western leaders had approached him about potential negotiations to end the conflict in Ukraine, saying the Kremlin is ready for dialogue so long as it respects Moscow’s core interests.
Speaking alongside his Belarusian counterpart, Sergey Aleinik, on Friday, Lavrov told reporters that some Western powers were increasingly interested in a negotiated settlement, though declined to single out any country by name, RT reported.
“I do not want to and I have no right to name names, but a number of high-level, well-known leaders of Western countries, including one specific Western leader, a very well-known one, several times… at least via three different channels of communication, sent signals as to why don’t we meet and talk about what to do with Ukraine and with European security,” he said.
Lavrov added that Russia is “always ready to discuss these issues seriously,” but suggested that Kiev has been the unwilling party, saying “We have never rejected the negotiations and this question should not be addressed to us.”
However, the foreign minister stressed that any talks would have to account for “Russia’s legitimate interests” and must mean “putting an end to attempts to build (one’s) own security at the expense of others,” referring to Ukraine’s efforts to join the NATO bloc.
Though Russian and Ukrainian negotiators met for multiple rounds of talks in the weeks after Moscow launched its “military operation”, the discussions soon collapsed. Kiev has shown little interest in further dialogue in the months since, with President Vladimir Zelensky even signing a decree barring any talks with the current Kremlin leadership.
During a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) earlier this month, Lavrov recalled that the two sides had essentially reached a peace agreement following talks in Istanbul in March 2022, noting that senior Ukrainian MP David Arakhamia, who led his country’s delegation, had recently confirmed this.
A key political ally of Zelensky, Arakhamia said that Russia’s primary goal had been to pressure Ukraine to accept neutrality and abandon plans to join NATO. Kiev did not trust Moscow to keep its word and wanted “security guarantees” from third parties, Arakhamia said, also pointing out then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s role in discouraging the talks.
Western leaders have so far said little about new peace talks in their public comments, though recent media reports have indicated that US and European officials have quietly broached the issue behind the scenes. According to US officials cited by NBC, Washington is now “worried that Ukraine is running out of forces” and cannot succeed on the battlefield, reportedly prompting new interest in negotiations.
“The Kremlin is ready for dialogue so long as it respects Moscow’s core interests”.
Let’s list these core interests.
Neutral UKraine, whatever remains of it. NATO to withdraw from Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. Compensation and prosecutions for Eastern UKraine and those who committed genocide there. Compensation for dead and injured Russians. Compensation for Russian war costs. Return of Russian cash with interest. Return of stolen private cash and assets with interest and compensation, and costs for rebuilding Russian held Eastern UKraine.
Will this happen, unlikely. The first two points are the big problems, because this is pure politics, and meeting these core interests tells the entire world that NATO got beat into a puddle of its own piss.
What might happen, is that Z or his replacement could unconditionally surrender, but this would be a huge mistake for Russia to accept this, because this SMO/war was a NATO operation. NATO trained, armed, controlled, and had substantial forces in Nazi UKraine.
Putin just reiterated the standing objectives, to deNazify and demilitarise UKraine. Russia appears to be content to kill any Nazis who wants to die, and when they don’t show up for death, the Russians will carefully advance. Putin also made it very clear. Russia wants Odesa, and why not Moldova and other pro Russia enclaves.
No one talks about it, but Kiev is getting hammered.
A seperate comment. I can’t can’t believe the number of bots on this site, and the content which is there to misdirect and prevent discussion. Vacuous hot air windbag scribblings about nothing.
Look at the hideous head on this mongrel ghoul. Looks like some weird negroidal quadroon. What they don’t tell you though is that just as Putins Admin is infested with Jews like Lavrov, so is Zelensky’s. Russia is a ZOG State just like the US/UK/Ukraine. They’re all in on it pretending to be ‘enemies’ to waste white soldiers/civilians. Welcome to Whiteocide–the primary clandestine political program of all governments/nations of the world determining all their actions. Now you know, thanks to me.
Russia ! make the germans + others rob on
their knees + make them pay for your damages !
yid ghouls like lavrov & putin rule russia
Funny how the fonts look the same as WEF.
I see AZOV discarded crippled monkeys commenting here …
bob = commie
Nico X – you are absolutely correct. The same thing happened with WW1 & WW2. In WW1 both sides were being supplied with cocaine. In WW2 it was meth. The (same) Church on both sides demanded that the flock should go to war to please Yahweh
Under no circumstances should the Russians negotiate. Nothing but unconditional surrender and the complete dismembering of the pseudo-state of Ukraine – reducing to a rump state, back to its true historical border – will do.
The Russians should by now have more than enough evidence of Western treachery and support for terrorism to know this. Simply settling for the annexation of the breakaway regions will only be setting themselves up for more Western sponsored trouble.
Fook–
Excellent