The vice president of the Russian Security Council and former Russian president, Dmitri Medvedev, presented this Thursday the details of the so-called “Russian Peace Formula” to end the invasion of Ukraine, which would require the unconditional surrender of Kiev, the payment of all compensations due to Russia and the annexation of all Ukrainian territory in exchange for the Kremlin ending hostilities.
“We do not see any desire to negotiate on the part of the so-called former Ukraine. At least on the basis of recognition of realities, as (Russian President Vladimir) Putin said yesterday,” Medvedev said in a text published on his Telegram channel. According to the official, Ukraine only recognizes a “brainless” peace formula, suggested by “a provincial clown in green tights.”
“It seems so artificial that the only way out is to build your own formula, Russian, calm and quite realistic. Human for all,” continued Medvedev, one of President Vladimir Putin’s staunchest allies and who was president of Russia from 2008 to 2012.
The peace formula proposed by Medvedev, a hawk who, according to diplomats, gives an idea of what is thinking in the Kremlin, foresees that Ukraine admits its defeat in the conflict and surrenders unconditionally.
The Russian proposal also implies the recognition of the entire territory of Ukraine as the territory of Russia and the adoption of the act of reunification with the Russian Federation, as well as the recognition of this act in the United Nations.
Another of the conditions detailed by Medvedev is the loss for Ukraine of its global legal personality and the prohibition of joining military alliances without the consent of the Russian Federation.
Furthermore, a provisional parliament should be introduced in Ukraine when the country is defeated. Specifically, Medvedev suggested “the resignation of all constitutional authorities ‘of the former ‘Ukraine’ and the immediate holding of elections to the provisional Parliament of the self-governed territory under the auspices of the United Nations.”
The Provisional Parliament of Ukraine will have to pass a law establishing a procedure for compensation for damage caused to the regions of Russia, as well as to injured citizens and families of dead Russians.
“This could be Russia’s soft peace formula. It’s a commitment, right? I believe that based on it we can seek a benevolent consensus with the international community, including the Anglo-Saxon world, to hold productive summits, counting on the mutual understanding of our close friends – the Western partners,” Medvedev concluded.
In a sign of the Kremlin’s intentions, on March 4 Medvedev spoke before a giant map of Ukraine showing the country as a landlocked patch of land much smaller than its internationally recognized territory.
The map seemed to describe a scenario in which Ukraine would be squeezed against Poland, with kyiv as its capital, but Russia would control a strip of Ukrainian cities, as well as the east, the south and the entire Black Sea coast.
Russia has the initiative on the battlefield and controls just under a fifth of Ukrainian territory, which it claims as its own. But it is far from conquering more territory and achieving the capitulation of kyiv, which in turn attacks more and more Russian regions. Moscow thought the assault on Ukraine would last a few days or maybe weeks, and it just turned two years old.
There was no immediate reaction from kyiv to Medvedev’s new statements. Ukrainian authorities have repeatedly accused the former president and other senior Russian officials of waging an illegal war of conquest and have asserted that Ukraine and its people are distinct from Russia and Russians.
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