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Ukraine has criticized former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger for suggesting peace between Ukraine and Russia. Photo/REUTERS
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s aide Mykhailo Podolyak said he was involved in the deal with Russia now it was like making a deal with the devil.
Kissinger said Ukraine should seek a negotiated peace plan with Russia to reduce the risk of sliding into another world war.
Kissinger wrote in the magazine The viewer that European leaders are “sleepwalking” into the First World War, which claimed the lives of millions.
The Treaty of Versailles, he writes, left behind a more fragile power structure than the one it replaced.
Kissinger asked if the war in Ukraine was at a similar tipping point.
The war dragged on after Russia’s invasion on February 24, and Ukraine applied to join NATO after Russia annexed Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions.
“The time is fast approaching to build on the strategic changes that have been achieved and integrate them into a new framework for achieving peace through negotiation,” Kissinger wrote.
“The peace process must link Ukraine to NATO, however one may say. The neutral alternative doesn’t matter anymore, especially after Finland and Sweden joined NATO,” Kissinger continued.
