Russia: Ukraine lost the chance of a better agreement
| Referring to the opportunity for peace at the March 2022 talks in Istanbul, when Kiev abandoned the agreement, the deputy representative of Russia to the United Nations, Dmitry Polyansky, said on Saturday that Ukrainian leaders have lost the chance of a favorable exit from the conflict. |
According to the report of Fars News Agency International Group, the lives of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian troops are the price of a peace agreement that could have happened a few weeks after the start of the war, but %20
The Russian diplomat wrote in a message on X on Saturday that “any possible agreement will now reflect its (Ukraine) capitulation.” These statements were made while Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday that several Western leaders have requested through different channels to negotiate with the aim of ending the conflict in Ukraine.
Only since the beginning of the Ukrainian counter-attacks in the summer with the aim of recapturing the areas under the control of the Russian forces, the Ukrainian army has suffered more than 125,000 casualties, equivalent to at least five complete divisions. In recent days, some Western officials and politicians, such as the American Republican Senator “JD Vance”, referring to Russia’s military capabilities, have said that Ukraine should give up its territorial claims and reach an agreement with Moscow to end the war.
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