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| Peskov said that Russia is ready for peace negotiations on Ukraine |
| 2023-12-06 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Russia remains ready for negotiations on a peaceful resolution of the situation in Ukraine; these negotiations were interrupted in 2022 at the initiative of Kiev, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters on December 5. “The President has repeatedly said that the main thing for us is to achieve our goals. And, of course, we would prefer to do this primarily through political and diplomatic means. That’s why we remain ready for negotiations,” Peskov said in a conversation with RTVI. As Regnum reported, Russian President Vladimir Putin has previously stated on several occasions that Moscow has never refused negotiations with Kiev. The Ukrainian authorities prohibited these negotiations for themselves, Putin noted, recalling that in the spring of 2022, representatives of Kyiv initialed a peace agreement, but after the withdrawal of units of the Russian Armed Forces from Kyiv, they refused to implement it. The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, previously confirmed that some Western politicians are calling on him to enter into peace negotiations with Moscow, but noted that he is “not ready” for these negotiations. In November 2023, observers of the German newspaper Bild stated in their article that the US and German authorities want to force the leaders of the Kiev regime to negotiate peace with Moscow and therefore send Ukraine such shipments of weapons that are enough to hold the front line, but not for an offensive. The Kremlin and the Russian Foreign Ministry have previously repeatedly noted that Russia is ready for peace negotiations with Ukraine, provided that Kiev fulfills the requirements set before the start of a special military operation, and subject to the recognition of new territorial realities - the return of four regions to Russia in 2022. |
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