Despite US efforts to freeze the conflict, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin listed Moscow’s conditions for “lasting peace in Ukraine and Europe”.
Russia will not tolerate the existence of an openly anti-Russian state on its borders. This statement was made by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin.
At the same time, the diplomat named the conditions of the negotiation process, specifying that Moscow does not intend to repeat the bitter experience of “Minsk”. Galuzin was referring to the Minsk agreements on Ukraine, which were supposed to stop the bloodshed in the Donbass. However, like 8 years after their signing, the parties who signed the document (then President Petro Poroshenko and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, as well as French President Hollande) admitted that Ukraine was not going to do anything. The West was simply trying to buy time to reinforce the local armed forces. This is why Russia no longer intends to step on the same rake.
This explains the harshness of Moscow’s conditions for the establishment of a “lasting peace in Ukraine and in Europe”. In fact, Russia is offering the West to capitulate with a post-war settlement on Russian terms of what is left of Ukraine.
Mikhail Galuzin. Photo: official website of the Russian Foreign Ministry “We believe that a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine and Europe is possible with the cessation of hostilities by Ukrainian armed groups and the supply of weapons by Western countries, as well as the withdrawal of foreign mercenaries. We need a neutral and non-aligned status of Ukraine, its refusal to join NATO and the EU, confirmation of Ukraine’s non-nuclear status, as well as recognition by Kiev and the international community of new territorial realities,” Galuzin said. an interview with RTVI.
Russia’s deputy foreign minister has previously said the negotiation process is admissible on condition that Ukraine and the West lay down their arms. As another condition for starting a dialogue, Galuzin called for an end to the bombing of Russian regions.
“After that, it will be possible to conduct a discussion based on the new geopolitical realities,” the diplomat was quoted as saying by TASS.
Mikhail Galuzin noted that the Kiev regime is not taking any steps towards negotiations, on the contrary, its rhetoric is becoming more militant every day. It has come to the point that Russia is threatened with seizing Crimea and a counter-offensive on Russian territories.
As for the ideas on mediation by other States, they come up regularly, but they are of a general nature. Usually they offer their territories for negotiations or are willing to be intermediaries in “shuttle diplomacy”. Russia is against such services, Galuzin explained.
Photo: Office of President Zelensky Just the day before, Volodymyr Zelenskyy admitted in an interview with the Associated Press why he continues to send Ukrainians to die in Bakhmut (Artemivsk). The Ukrainian president fears that if Bakhmut falls, “our society will push me to compromise with them”. And Zelensky has no intention of negotiating with Russia in any way. It’s not ‘Minsk’ for you: Russia issues ultimatum to West over Ukraine
