Putin’s view on the Swiss peace conference/Belarus border situation

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, Vladimir Putin was quoted by Novosti news agency. The Russian president called the Ukrainian peace conference, which is scheduled to be held in Borgenstock, Switzerland, and the Russian side was not invited, a panopticon (all-seeing structure).

Last night he met with President Alexander Lukashenko “Now, as you know, the theory of holding some kind of conference in Switzerland is being promoted, to which we are not invited,” Belarus said. Besides, they think we have no business there. However, the organizers of the conference know that nothing will be resolved without Moscow. And since we are not going there, this conference is a kind of panopticon that we refuse to negotiate. They don’t invite us and then they say that we refuse to negotiate.”

Ukraine peace conference is scheduled to be held on June 15-16 in Burgenstock, Switzerland. As Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis said, in the first summit without Russia’s participation, an agreement can be reached on the time and manner of Moscow’s participation in the conflict resolution process.

Lukashenko holding a peace conference He considered Ukraine impossible without the Russian Federation

Alexander Lukashenko also emphasized in his meeting with Vladimir Putin that it is impossible to hold any kind of peace conference on Ukraine without the participation of Russia.

President The President of Belarus said: I have already said and our position is that they can only agree there on how to escalate the conflict. What kind of peace process can exist without Russia? There is no peace process.” Lukashenko stressed that he fully supports Moscow’s position on the resolution of the Ukrainian crisis and that today everything is in place to agree on peace. Western countries may have the right to Russia and Belarus have not been invited to this summit, because there is no discussion with them. He added: “If they are trying to gather more than 100 countries there and dictate something to us and try to bring us to our knees, what can you talk to them about? This is not a proposal for peace talks.”

Lukashenko believes that Russia’s peace initiatives in Ukraine will find a response, including among the military. “The moment when Kiev “comes to its senses and understands where its happiness lies” is not far away, he said. Let them gather and decide by themselves.”

The Russian president also agreed to the proposal of his Belarusian counterpart to return to the draft Istanbul agreement with the Ukrainian side to achieve peace.

Vladimir Putin emphasized: “From the beginning, Russia was interested in a peaceful solution to the problems in Ukraine and “the war in 2014 didn’t start and everything started with the coup in Kiev,” he said. I think that the other side, when it refused to negotiate in the hope of defeating Russia on the battlefield, to some extent backed itself into a corner and inflicted a strategic defeat on it. Now they know that it is impossible, but they refused to negotiate, and now they are in a rather difficult situation.” The Russian president emphasized that the country is ready for peaceful negotiations, but not by imposing any A plan that has nothing to do with reality.

Putin’s explanation about the reason for Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian energy facilities

According to Vladimir Putin, attacks on Ukrainian energy facilities are part of It is from the demilitarization of the country, as it affects the military industrial complex of Ukraine. According to him, Russia has been forced to respond to Ukraine’s attacks on its energy facilities. The Russian president explained: “Unfortunately, we have recently seen a series of attacks on our energy facilities and we are forced to respond.” Based on humanitarian considerations, we did not carry out any attacks during the winter and did not want to leave social institutions, hospitals, etc. without electricity.. But after the attack on our energy facilities, we had to respond.”

Lukashenko called the situation on the western borders of Belarus difficult

The president of Belarus, in his meeting with Vladimir Putin, also mentioned that a difficult situation is developing on the western borders of this country, and this is due to It is because of the confrontation policy of the leaders of Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. Alexander Lukashenko mentioned the transfer of American and German “battalions” to the territory of Lithuania and Poland and added: “They are conducting military maneuvers and intend to Do more exercises in May. For this reason, we had to deploy our units and line up in combat readiness mode. We stand at all points of the border and are ready to defend.” The President of Belarus arrived in Moscow yesterday for a business trip, Lukashenko and Putin are participating in an event on the occasion of Cosmonautics Day today.

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