Despite Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov’s recent statement that negotiations with Ukraine have “lost meaning,” Putin has reversed course. He denied rejecting peace dialogue. But this is contradicted by his own statements from mid-August.
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Peskov said a week ago that negotiations with Ukraine “have lost their meaning”. “There are many reports in the media about various communications between Russia and Ukraine, and not all of them are actually true,” he said, according to the site Ukrainian litigation.
A week later, however, the words of the spokesman of the Russian government were thrown off the table by President Putin himself, who still held the same position in mid-August, as recorded in the video at the beginning of the article. The head of the Kremlin told the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti on Monday that Russia has never rejected peace talks. “But it is necessary to deal with the bandits who entered our country,” he added, referring to the Ukrainian operation in the Kursk region.
Daily The Washington Post reported in August that Ukraine and Russia were to send diplomats to Qatar to negotiate an agreement that would end attacks on both sides’ energy infrastructure. According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the discussion between the countries really took place. Just a day after Peskov’s statement, however, he also expressed skepticism about the peace talks.
“As of today, not only compromise, but also dialogue with Putin is generally empty, useless. He does not want to end the war through diplomatic means. He wants Ukraine to give up almost a third of its territory,” he said.
Despite a significant material and human superiority, the Russians are experiencing huge losses. The Ukrainská pravda server points out that Putin may have been moved to comment on the peace talks by the fact that after more than a decade of war and two and a half years of full-scale invasion, the country did not manage to occupy even the entire Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which was considered a strategic success of the lowest importance from the beginning .
“These are supposed peace talks through which the Kremlin wants to keep all the territories it now occupies, while continuing to terrorize Ukraine and hit energy and civilian infrastructure and residential buildings,” summarizes server journalist Iryna Balachuková.
The need for peace negotiations in connection with Russian aggression in Ukraine has been discussed more and more frequently in recent months. Analysts remind us that a fundamental breakthrough cannot be expected in the short term, and the war is already becoming disadvantageous even for Russia, which cannot benefit from the effect of the war economy forever.
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