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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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.
“Really?”
Actually, it was yesterday.
Shoot, the gif maker is down. I had a masterpiece, too.
Boo!
Russia needs access to save Hungary and Slovakia somehow form the evil clutches of the EU, too.
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....
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.
Don’t worry, I’ll get ya.
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.
And Gorby was a short bald guy with a blotch on his head. Back in the day.
Second request.
Assertion. Cite sources.
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?
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.
Gorbachev to be buried in low-key funeral snubbed by Putin
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.
Coups R Us and the globalist agenda is grinding to a halt.
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.
What do you have against countries being free instead of slaves to other countries?
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