Foreign Minister of Ukraine: No one has forced Kyiv to stop the conflict with Russia
| The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine pointed out that there is no request from the Western allies to stop the military conflict and negotiate with Russia, and said: "Kiev has no other support plan to turn to if the financial aid of the European Union ends." |
He answered the reporter’s question whether the allies do not want Kiev to negotiate with Russia on the cessation of hostilities. , said: “No, our allies have never made such a request. This is not something that anyone dares to put on the table as an option.”
Noting that Ukraine should be a matter of unity, not division between countries, Koleba claimed that Russian officials do not want “an end to the conflict. and not peace.
This is despite the fact that Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, said earlier that if Ukraine wants the negotiation process, there is no need for dramatic gestures, the order prohibiting negotiations with Russia should be canceled. According to him, Moscow has never been against a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Ukraine.
Kiev has not found a plan B in case of termination of EU financial aid
The head of the Ukrainian diplomatic service also emphasized that, if the European Union does not send additional financial aid to Ukraine, Kiev does not have a support plan.
Dmitry Koleba answered a question about this and said: We do not have a plan B. From the outside you can see things differently and think, there may be plans A, B or C, publish articles and analysis, but here, inside Ukraine, we have to focus all our energy and thinking on one thing. and that is the implementation of plan A.
Ukraine’s foreign minister emphasized that if the assistance of EU countries is postponed, the Ministry of Finance should show its “management skills”.
Koleba also claims that Ukraine will receive 100 percent of frozen Russian assets, and that they will be enough to rebuild the country. He added: We estimate that the total frozen assets will cover more than 80% of our needs for the reconstruction of the country. They have frozen about 300 billion euros of Russia’s foreign exchange reserves. A day earlier, the head of the National Bank of Ukraine, Andriy Pishnyi, said that the country was heavily dependent on Western financial aid and requested that The importance of this source should not be ignored.
It should be remembered that the new EU meeting on multi-year financing of Ukraine is scheduled to be held in Brussels on February 1, 2024.
Before Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the European Commission, announced the beginning of preparation of alternative options for providing financial assistance to Ukraine from the European Union in case of failure of negotiations on the allocation of such funds from the EU’s national budget.
The European Union transferred the last installment of 1.5 billion euros to Ukraine on December 21, 2023. Von der Leyen called for an agreement to be reached so that European countries can continue to support Kiev.
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