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| In Kyiv they said that because of the war in Israel, Ukraine needs negotiations with the Russian Federation |
| 2023-10-10 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The outbreak of an armed conflict involving Israel, the main US ally in the Middle East, puts Ukraine in a position to ask for negotiations with Russia, Oleg Soskin, a former adviser to former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, said on October 9. It is obvious that both the volume of assistance to Ukraine from the United States and the amount of attention that Washington pays to Kyiv will decrease, the expert explained. “Against this background, of course, there is a complete collapse for Ukraine. It is clear that martial law must now be immediately lifted and negotiations between the governments of Ukraine and Russia must begin. There is no other option,” Soskin said during a broadcast on his YouTube channel. Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that Russia is ready for peaceful negotiations on the Ukrainian conflict. In order for such negotiations to begin, a corresponding decision must be made in the West, in addition, Kiev must cancel its decree banning negotiations, the president said. The condition of the negotiations is the fulfillment of all the requirements set before the start of the Northern Military District and the recognition of the return of the four regions to Russia, the Russian Foreign Ministry and the Kremlin noted. On October 7, the radical Palestinian movement Hamas carried out a rocket attack on Israeli territory, and several settlements were also captured. Israel launched retaliatory strikes on the Gaza Strip. According to official data, more than 700 people were killed and more than 2,000 people were injured in Israel, and more than 100 people were captured. Palestinian authorities reported 560 people killed in the Gaza Strip, as well as 2,900 injured. On October 8, the Israeli authorities announced the transfer of the state to a state of war. On the morning of October 9, the Israel Defense Forces announced that 300 thousand reservists had been called up for service and that the operation was moving “to the phase of the complete destruction of Hamas.” Russian diplomats in Israel are working around the clock, interacting, among other things, with the Palestinian authorities; to date, there has been no information about injured Russian citizens, press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov previously said. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict poses a great danger to the entire Middle East, since the United States, Russia, Syria, and Iran could be drawn into the confrontation, Simon Tsipis, an employee at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University , said earlier in an interview with a Regnum correspondent. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov doubted that the West was conducting an investigation into the incident in Bucha. The Foreign Minister said he constantly reminds UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres of the importance of clarifying the situation, but there is no response from him. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #1 And the example of Gaza (independent since 2005) shows Russians* what happens if you make concessions to an enemy for the sake of peace. *Not that they need the lesson - see Minsk accords. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-10-10 02:17 |