At the moment, there are no prerequisites for peace talks with Kyiv, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Saturday. Two years ago, Kiev already banned all negotiations as long as Vladimir Putin is the Russian president, on whose orders Russian troops invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Kyiv banned the meeting on the grounds that it exposed war crimes it said Russia had committed.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends an extended meeting of the Interior Ministry Council in Moscow, Russia, April 2, 2024 | Photo: Sergei Savostyanov | Source: Reuters
“Currently, there are no prerequisites for negotiations, because everyone is well aware of Ukraine’s position not to accept any talks. That is why the special military operation continues,” Putin’s spokesman said, according to news agencies. Russia describes the war it has been waging against the neighboring country for more than two years as a special military operation.
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Peskov also said that the Russians and Ukrainians had already agreed on a peace treaty during negotiations in Istanbul two years ago. According to him, the document was actually initialed, but Kiev refused to complete the agreement due to “direct pressure from London”, Peskov said.
A spokesman for the Kremlin made it clear two weeks ago that any peace talks with Ukraine would have to take into account the fact that Russia added four more Ukrainian regions to its territory during this war, after the Crimean peninsula was annexed ten years ago. Even then, the Russian president’s spokesman admitted to journalists that he felt no willingness on the part of Kyiv to negotiate with Moscow.
Past negotiations
Talks between Ukraine and Russia, initially held in Belarus, began shortly after Russian troops invaded Ukraine in February 2022. However, Kyiv broke off talks with Russia when, following the withdrawal of Russian troops from Kyiv in the spring of 2022, mass murders and other atrocities were revealed, which, according to Kyiv, were committed by Russian soldiers in the vicinity of the Ukrainian capital during the short occupation.
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The city of Buča became a symbol of these war crimes, where shot civilians lay on the streets and where mass graves were also found. Moscow denies any attacks on civilians, let alone war crimes, and mentioning such suspicions carries a risk of many years in prison in Russia. However, Kiev still banned negotiations with Russia as long as Putin, who was elected president for another six years in April, is at its head.
In the upcoming Istanbul agreement, according to the agencies, Russia demanded that Ukraine commit to neutrality, renounce joining NATO, limit the size of its armed forces and grant special status to eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi has made it clear that he is against such commitments. Zelensky’s decree from last year prohibiting negotiations with Russia on behalf of Putin nevertheless leaves open the possibility of negotiations with another Russian president, Reuters noted.
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