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Russia ready to negotiate despite Zelensky's 'legitimacy problems,' Kremlin spox claims
Kyiv Independent Yahoo News ^ | 2/5/2025 | Tim Zadorozhnyy

Posted on 02/05/2025 9:01:56 AM PST by marcusmaximus

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov reiterated Russia's claim that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is illegitimate on Feb. 5 but said Moscow remains open to negotiations.

Peskov's comments follow Zelensky's statement in an interview with U.K. journalist Piers Morgan that he was willing to sit at the negotiating table with Russian President Vladimir Putin if it was the only way to end the war.

"Mr. Zelensky has big problems de jure in terms of his legitimacy, but even so, the Russian side remains open to negotiations," Peskov claimed. The spokesperson also called Zelensky's recent comments on negotiations "empty words," adding that they must be based on an actual "readiness and desire."

Russia has widely used the claim of Zelensky's alleged illegitimacy as part of its propaganda campaign to discredit Ukraine's government, arguing that Zelensky has served past his five-year term without holding new elections.

Ukrainian legal experts and officials have dismissed the narrative as false and unfounded, pointing to the fact that Ukraine's constitution does not permit elections under martial law and that a significant portion of the Ukrainian population is under occupation and, therefore, cannot vote.

Putin previously claimed that Zelensky had no right to sign any peace agreements, referencing the Ukrainian president's decree on Sept. 30, 2022, which banned negotiations with the Russian leader in response to Moscow's annexation of four Ukrainian regions.

Zelensky clarified on Jan. 26 that the decree only applied to other Ukrainian officials, not himself.

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To: Karl Spooner

Yup. Haven’t looked up the map in a bit. If memory serves correctly. The surrounding countries pretty much all do. As Putin has stated, Lenin screwed up by separating it for election reasons. Interesting history, that’s not even going to far back. Then there’s still a Nazi problem with the Banderra boys.


21 posted on 02/05/2025 9:59:37 AM PST by foundedonpurpose (Praise Hashem, for his restoration of all things! )
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To: Karl Spooner

“Really?”

Actually, it was yesterday.


22 posted on 02/05/2025 10:01:29 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Black guy upon receiving a MAGA hat: "MURICA!")
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To: marcusmaximus
Someone needs to gag Zelensky until this is resolved.
23 posted on 02/05/2025 10:01:58 AM PST by McGruff (Biden will go down in history as the worst president ever.)
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To: marcusmaximus

Shoot, the gif maker is down. I had a masterpiece, too.


24 posted on 02/05/2025 10:02:49 AM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: Karl Spooner

Boo!


25 posted on 02/05/2025 10:04:56 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: delta7

Russia needs access to save Hungary and Slovakia somehow form the evil clutches of the EU, too.


26 posted on 02/05/2025 10:08:50 AM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: marcusmaximus
What an amusing thread this is becoming. Your source -- "VCHK-OGPU source on Trump's popularity" -- via its Telegram channel is interesting as it is in Russian, at first. Are you a Russian-speaker?

As to that Telegram channel with its unnamed source, one learns it It references its own web site -- rucriminal.info whois query for rucriminal.info

Domain: rucriminal.info
Registered On: 2018-04-03
Registrar: HOSTINGER operations, UAB (Lithuanian)
Registrant Contact Organization: Privacy Protect, LLC (PrivacyProtect.org)
State: Massachusetts

The nameservers show the website is physically hosted in the US.

When you provide sources for your version of "popcorn time," others find their "popcorn time" in looking more closely into those sources you cite.

VCHK-OGPU "source" is not further identified. But further down in the Telegram link you posted, they speak about pickpockets in Moscow. So it's a bit gossipy.

A tasty part of the text, machine translated:

For the Kremlin, it is obvious that Moscow and Washington will no longer be able to compete in the field of traditional values, urgently need to change the main mainstream in the Russian media. As one participant in the meeting of the government working group Yu joked: it can lift the ban on LGBT people and start supporting transgender policy by introducing it into the culture of Russia to keep the global confrontation agenda and «alternative path » against Americans.
Hey, Marcus, didn't know you were such a LGBT fan....
27 posted on 02/05/2025 10:10:22 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: foundedonpurpose

Yeah, those Nazis will always find a safe haven somewhere to spread their depravity. Good thing Biden isn’t in office or they would get a free trip over here.


28 posted on 02/05/2025 10:13:14 AM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: marcusmaximus

Don’t worry, I’ll get ya.


29 posted on 02/05/2025 10:14:35 AM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

The Russians loved President Reagan too, back in the day.


30 posted on 02/05/2025 10:15:53 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus
--- "The Russians loved President Reagan too, back in the day."

Assertion. Cite sources.

Some Americans liked the USSR, too, when one thinks "back in the day" to the idiotic American Left. That doesn't mean "American loved the USSR." Blanket statements about a population are the stuff of assertions, and lacking any granular detail.

31 posted on 02/05/2025 10:23:29 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

And Gorby was a short bald guy with a blotch on his head. Back in the day.


32 posted on 02/05/2025 10:26:37 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus
--- "The Russians loved President Reagan too, back in the day."

Second request.

Assertion. Cite sources.

33 posted on 02/05/2025 10:33:08 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: marcusmaximus
---- "And Gorby was a short bald guy with a blotch on his head. Back in the day."

Your a funny guy, and so often play the old "look over there, a squirrel" game.

As to Gorbachev, back in the day, he met with our President Reagan many times. Back in the day. President Reagan managed some nice words too.

Remember this?


34 posted on 02/05/2025 10:43:04 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

President Reagan ate Gorby’s lunch and Putin never forgave Gorby and refused to give him a state funeral and didn’t even attend his civilian funeral.


35 posted on 02/05/2025 10:46:48 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

Gorbachev to be buried in low-key funeral snubbed by Putin

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-mikhail-gorbachev-soviet-union-bdd9d29c6d9442f2567025107768bc54


36 posted on 02/05/2025 10:48:51 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus
Who cares? You're the one obsessed with Russia, not me.

What I care about is that regime change operations and all the money laundered to globalist scum like George Soros is now over.

As a result, you, no doubt, will need to find other work soon.

37 posted on 02/05/2025 10:54:04 AM PST by Kazan
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To: marcusmaximus
And, you did see, Marcus, that the Trump administration is offering to buyout all 8000 members of the CIA in order to push them into retirement?

Coups R Us and the globalist agenda is grinding to a halt.

38 posted on 02/05/2025 10:57:16 AM PST by Kazan
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To: marcusmaximus
AP News in that time wrote by reporting one of the mourners: " 'I'd like us to have more people like him in our history,' said another mourner, Yulia Prividennaya. 'We need such politicians to settle the situation in the world when it's on the verge of World War III'.”

What will come, oh great Delphic oracle, will come. Politicians will settle the war between non-NATO Ukraine and non-NATO Russia through diplomacy of some sort.

After all our President, while being attacked by the Democrats will lawfare and impeachment, managed some diplomacy....

Interestingly, the other president managed some diplomacy too.


39 posted on 02/05/2025 10:58:02 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Karl Spooner

What do you have against countries being free instead of slaves to other countries?


40 posted on 02/05/2025 12:35:24 PM PST by POGO163
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