What the Russian official said about the Wall Street Journal report on secret negotiations with the US
Dmitry Peskov on Monday declined to comment on a Wall Street Journal report that his “right hand” Joe Biden, Jake Sullivan had secret negotiations with a Russian official to avert a nuclear threat. Many things are published by Anglo-Saxon newspapers, he merely stated.
The WSJ report comes after a similar report from the Washington Post, according to which the US is urging Ukraine to show “open” in negotiations with Russia, and to back down from its public refusal to negotiate peace unless the Russian president first steps down.
Asked about this issue as well, the Russian official said that “we don’t know if it’s true or not. Because (…) there are also true reports, but mainly reports that are absolutely speculations and pure lies. So we can’t comment on that without being sure that this is actually true.”
The representative of the Russian president stated, however, “that the Russian side is ready to repeat the negotiation process with Ukraine”.
However, he spoke of the impossibility of any negotiations after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree excluding negotiations with Russia, since its president is Vladimir Putin.
“We have repeatedly said that the Russian side remains open to achieving its goals in the negotiations, but we have also repeatedly drawn everyone’s attention to the fact that at the moment we do not see such an opportunity, as it was codified in Kyiv, that is, turned into law, the non- continuation of any negotiation with the Russian side,” Peskov replied.
Russian President Vladimir Putin does not plan to attend the East Asia Summit scheduled for November, the Russian diplomat said. “This trip is not planned,” the Kremlin spokesman said.
THE Russia’s decision to carry out its “special military operation” was heavily influenced by Kiev’s threats to restart its nuclear program, the deputy secretary of Russia’s Security Council has claimed in the meantime Dmitry Medvedev on his VKontakte profile on Monday.
He stated that “‘the Kiev regime’ is crying bitterly over the decision of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum to withdraw its nuclear arsenal [της Ουκρανίας] which was inherited from the USSR and was on their territory”.
“Moreover [οι Ουκρανοί ηγέτες είπαν] that they would have used it against us and their citizens with diabolical pleasure,” Medvedev claimed. “Which they no doubt alluded to when they threatened to restart the nuclear program, which largely triggered the ‘special military operation,'” he wrote.
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