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Ukraine Threatens To Quit Peace Talks With Russia by cule7(m): 5:06am On Apr 24, 2022 |
The country’s president has named Kiev’s ‘red lines’ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed on Saturday what kind of events might force his country to withdraw from peace negotiations with Moscow. During a press conference held at one of Kiev's metro stations amid the ongoing Russian offensive in Ukraine, Zelensky was asked how Kiev would respond to potential independence referendums in the territories controlled by Russian forces. The president admitted that it would force him to stop any talks with Moscow. “If our people are destroyed in Mariupol, if a referendum, a pseudo-referendum, is announced in any new pseudo-republics of Ukraine, Ukraine will withdraw from any negotiations process,” Zelensky said. Two days ago, Moscow announced the capture of Mariupol. However, President Vladimir Putin called off the assault on the Azovstal factory, which remains the last holdout of Ukrainian forces, including the fighters of the neo-Nazi Azov regiment, in the strategic port city. Russian troops should “seal the area so that a fly cannot get through,” Putin instead ordered. Zelensky, meanwhile, admitted that at the moment Ukraine is not able to recapture Mariupol militarily and that the holed-up fighters there are aware of that. Zelensky reiterated his wish to conduct direct talks with Vladimir Putin, as “the war can be stopped by the person who started it.” He explained that, as he thinks, direct negotiations could be a more effective way to reach peace than speaking via mediators. “I want to stop the war and end it. There is a diplomatic path and a military one. Any healthy person chooses the diplomatic path because he knows that even if it is difficult, it can prevent the loss of millions of people,” Zelensky said. Putin, meanwhile, has not ruled out a personal meeting with Zelensky, but stressed that it would depend on the progress of talks between the negotiating teams Commenting on the upcoming visit by UN Security General Antonio Guterres to Moscow, Zelensky claimed that it is not logical that he would travel to Russia before speaking to Kiev, but the Ukrainian leader expressed his readiness to conduct talks with Guterres as well. Ukraine’s conditions for a peace settlement, according to Zelensky, remain the same: security guarantees for Kiev and “the fate of Donbass and Crimea,” the independence of which Kiev has categorically refused to recognize. “I think there are no more issues,” he said. Meanwhile, Zelensky said, the Ukrainian forces would keep fighting and, depending on weapons supplies from the West, will be recapturing territories which had been captured by the Russian forces. “My position as president is: whatever they [Russian forces] occupy, we will return. It will not be a matter of 8 years, like from 2014, it will be immediate. This is a matter of weapons. If we have enough of them, we will immediately begin to recapture the occupied territory,” he said. Russia has repeatedly warned NATO against sending arms to Ukraine and stated that it would consider arms convoys to be legitimate military targets. It also says that “pumping up” Ukraine with weapons will only lead to more casualties. Since the launch of Russia’s military offensive on Ukraine, Moscow and Kiev have accused each other of hampering civilian evacuations, as well as committing war crimes and violating international law. Several rounds of peace negotiations have not yielded any significant progress. Russia attacked the neighboring state in late February, following Ukraine’s failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements, first signed in 2014, and Moscow’s eventual recognition of the Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. The German and French brokered protocols were designed to give the breakaway regions special status within the Ukrainian state. The Kremlin has since demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join the US-led NATO military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked and has denied claims it was planning to retake the two republics by force. https://www.rt.com/russia/554412-zelensky-negotiations-mariupol-referendum/ 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Ukraine Threatens To Quit Peace Talks With Russia by Nobody: 5:08am On Apr 24, 2022 |
i'm tired of Russia-Ukraine war. its boring |
Re: Ukraine Threatens To Quit Peace Talks With Russia by falcon01: 5:26am On Apr 24, 2022 |
Hisbah21:Ahh toh |
Re: Ukraine Threatens To Quit Peace Talks With Russia by money121(m): 5:31am On Apr 24, 2022 |
Ok |
Re: Ukraine Threatens To Quit Peace Talks With Russia by Tony4988(m): 5:35am On Apr 24, 2022 |
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Re: Ukraine Threatens To Quit Peace Talks With Russia by Mooh247: 5:35am On Apr 24, 2022 |
Why are they now disturbing us, you either fight like a man or dialogue like a gentleman 3 Likes |
Re: Ukraine Threatens To Quit Peace Talks With Russia by GooodHardDick: 6:03am On Apr 24, 2022 |
Nairaland never still tire for this Russia and Ukraine war news? |
Re: Ukraine Threatens To Quit Peace Talks With Russia by railone(m): 6:49am On Apr 24, 2022 |
Prolong the war. Change tactic to guerilla warfare and they won't be in your country for long. DO NOT GIVE UP ON CRIMEA. very important. The US having a Naval base there will be the final nail in the ⚰ to bury Russia. |
Re: Ukraine Threatens To Quit Peace Talks With Russia by VictorUSA(m): 6:58am On Apr 24, 2022 |
Quit every peace talk with Russia and keep pounding his soldies until he receives sense. |
Re: Ukraine Threatens To Quit Peace Talks With Russia by Ruggedniggaone: 11:34am On Apr 24, 2022 |
Who told the clown that putin is interested in one useless peace talk with him 1 Like |
Re: Ukraine Threatens To Quit Peace Talks With Russia by Sirlancelort(m): 12:45pm On Apr 24, 2022 |
Why threaten, he should just quit the peace talk and continue winning the fight. 1 Like |
Re: Ukraine Threatens To Quit Peace Talks With Russia by Truvelisback(m): 6:32pm On Apr 24, 2022 |
GooodHardDick:I no dey visit Politics/foreign politics b4 ooo. Na Russia and Ukraine war nai come make me dey addicted to this section. 1 Like |
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