According to Kyiv, there is currently no contact with Russia at the political level
THE Russia seeks to drag her Ukraine in new negotiations to give it time to restore its military capabilities and launch a new offensive, an adviser to the Ukrainian presidency claimed today.
It’s been weeks Kremlin “trying to persuade Ukraine to engage in negotiations” for “to freeze the conflict, maintaining the current status quo in the occupied Ukrainian territories”he told AFP Mihailo Podoliak. Russia is “carrying its proposals through various intermediaries,” he added, without naming them.
According to Kyiv, there is currently no contact with Russia at the political level.
The president of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoganwho met his Russian counterpart in early August and then went to Ukraine on Friday for the first time in six months, has repeatedly said he is ready to mediate between Kiev and Moscow.
Ukraine, however, believes that in fact the Moscow It “does not want” serious peace negotiations but only an “operational pause” for its army so that it can then launch a new offensive, Podoliak commented.
The Kyiv rejects any negotiation over Russian-held territories, which it hopes to recapture. These include the territories under the control of the pro-Russian separatists of eastern Ukraine as well as its peninsula Crimea annexed by Russia in 2014.
Podoliak assured that “Ukrainians will continue to resist as long as necessary. It is a war for our existence, we have no other solution. Abandoning the struggle will mean not only the destruction of the Ukrainian state but also of all its citizens.”he underlined.
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