The disclosure of the chief Ukrainian negotiator about the peace that was destroyed
| The head of the Ukrainian delegation in negotiations with Russia admitted in an interview on Friday that Moscow was ready to stop the war about a month after the start of the war, but Kiev continued the war on the advice of the West. |
According to the report of Fars News Agency International Group, while the war in Ukraine is in its 21st month and there is no prospect of an early end, the chief negotiator of Kiev in the peace talks in Istanbul, David Arakhamia, revealed Moscow has offered Kiev a peace agreement in March 2022 and was ready to end the war under certain conditions.
This Ukrainian lawmaker, who heads the parliamentary group of the “Servant of the People” party of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, explained that the most important conditions for Russia to accept neutrality from Ukraine, such as What Finland once did was to pledge not to join NATO.
He argued about why such an agreement was not realized, that agreeing to neutrality and abandoning Ukraine’s membership in NATO required changing the country’s constitution, and that trust The Russians could not fulfill their obligations. But he himself explains that by receiving security guarantees, the commitment of the Russian side could be guaranteed.
Arakhamia continued his speech in line with the May 2022 report of a Ukrainian newspaper about the British role in disrupting the peace talks in Istanbul, adding that during the negotiations, then British Prime Minister Boris Johnson traveled to Kiev and told Ukrainian officials to “keep fighting and sign no deal with Moscow.”
Although London and Washington have never officially acknowledged pressuring Kiev to back out of the draft agreement they signed with the Russians, Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled the draft agreement in front of cameras in June this year. showed that the war had the possibility of peace in the first few weeks.
Putin explained that as soon as Russian forces withdrew from the outskirts of Kiev in the first few weeks of the war as a goodwill gesture, Ukraine withdrew from the agreement. Western officials and media interpreted this withdrawal as Ukraine’s victory, and after that they started sending weapons and equipment to Ukraine with the aim of strategically defeating Russia on Ukrainian soil.
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