Posted on 05/19/2022 7:23:56 PM PDT by elpadre
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba has said that Russia began to sharply lose interest in peace talks with Ukraine after the meeting of the foreign ministers of both countries in Istanbul in March.
"The negotiations were like a match. First you set it on fire, it burns strongly and brightly. Then, the longer it burns, the smaller it becomes, and eventually disappears. There remains only a burnt match, which is thrown to the ground and rubbed with a foot. About the same thing happened with the negotiations," Kuleba said on the air of the national telethon on Thursday, answering a question about whether there was a specific moment after which the peace talks stopped.
He clarified that after his meeting with head of Russian diplomacy Sergey Lavrov, which took place in Istanbul in March, it became clear that Russia was "losing its appetite for negotiations."
"The reasons for this will still need to be investigated. But every week we saw that there is a direct dependence: the more aggressive Russia is on the battlefield, the less interest it has in negotiations," the diplomat stressed.
According to him, the actions of the Russian Federation recently indicate that Moscow does not want to negotiate. "Russia chose war, not negotiations. That's why they died out," Kuleba summed up.
As reported, the first round of negotiations between Ukraine and Russia took place in Gomel region (Belarus) on February 28. Ukraine is represented in the negotiation process, in particular, by Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov, adviser to the head of the President’s Office Mykhailo Podoliak, head of the parliamentary faction Servant of the People David Arakhamia. The Russian delegation at the talks is headed by ex-Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky.
(Excerpt) Read more at en.interfax.com.ua ...
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“..On May 17, Mykhailo Podoliak, adviser to the head of the President’s Office, said that negotiations between Ukraine and Russia had been terminated, but sooner or later they would resume. At the same time, according to Podoliak, Kyiv does not intend to make territorial concessions for the sake of “saving the face” of Putin...”
Pretty sure Putin’s “offer” was taking the Dombas and maybe giving Ukraine a sliver of the Black Sea.
Eventually what settles this imo is Russia gets a land bridge to Crimea and returns some of the other land gains to Ukraine. Both sides can dance around that fact but it’s either that or win a conventional war against the opponent.
Pretty sure you have no idea.
Of course. The fact of the matter is, nobody here has any idea what really is going on. We all only know what we are told by various people who have various agendas to pursue. So let’s quit with the einstein routines and wait to see what the real world reveals.
Notice Williams didn’t show how he knows for sure?
The Biden regime told Zelensky not to negotiate. It wants Ukraine fight to the last man in desperate attempt to hurt Russia. But, there is no evidence Russia is becoming anything but stronger.
Russia invaded a sovereign country. I don’t need to know any more than that
Low information people being low information people.
This report is late coming to the table - March when they were negotiating but the headline sounds like it was this week.....must be Ukraine wants this out there since they’re the ones saying it. More propaganda.
Why are you posting this old news twice?
>More propaganda.
Maybe it’s just me growing up in the 80s and the residual fear of a nuclear winter, but they need to sign the shi*t now and spare lives. It’s a stalemate at the Donbas and it’s only going to end in more death if it continues, but there’s NATO with $40,000,000,000 from all of us to keep the whole thing going.
Ukraine will never be without conflict for long - it’s part of the nature of the country.
All that money flowing into Ukraine isn’t just for their war - you can bet it’s being washed and sent into many pockets....in Ukraine and out. Do you think all the World Leaders popping in to Ukraine were there just to say Hi!
Ukraine gets Nat’l visitors there now for the same reason the Pope does - that’s where the money flows.
It's too bad that they were invaded, that their government is so corrupt, and that their nation is an international football among globalists and superpowers.
*yawn*
This was a May 19th report of Ukraine’s foreign minister’s May 19th statement.
This was a May 19th report of Ukraine’s foreign minister’s May 19th statement.
The negotiations might resume after Ukraine invades and occupies Russia
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