– He does not want to speak, he wants to destroy Ukraine. Burbock said about Putin on the air of the German ARD channel that he was not ready to withdraw his forces, he was not ready to stop the killing.
She added that any country that thought it could convince the Russian president and persuade him to peace, “I realized with disappointment that this is impossible.”
According to her, “representatives of more than 140 countries traveled to Moscow several times to explain to the Russian president that the war would harm the whole world,” but their hopes that Putin would understand this were not justified.
Germany and France are putting pressure on Ukraine
In February in Paris, during a tripartite meeting, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to peace talks with Russia.
Earlier, former US ambassador to Moscow John Sullivan said that Russian President Vladimir Putin was not interested in negotiating with Ukraine even before a full-scale invasion and “has no such desire today.”
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has been going on for a year and has turned into the largest armed conflict in this part of Europe since the end of World War II.
negotiations with Russia. Zelensky set the conditions
At the beginning of November last year, President Volodymyr Zelensky presented the conditions for starting peace talks with Russia, demanding the restoration of Ukraine’s territorial integrity, respect for the United Nations Charter, compensation for the resulting losses, punishment for every war criminal, and guarantees of non-recurrence of the invasion.
Earlier, the Ukrainian president stated that he was not going to conduct any negotiations with the current Russian authorities, demanding an appropriate decree in this matter.
After media reports that the West was calling on Kiev for dialogue with Moscow, Zelensky began talking about the possibility of negotiations with the Kremlin, but on the condition that Russian forces completely withdraw from Ukrainian territory and return to the 1991 borders.
The Bild newspaper, citing sources in the American and German governments, reported that Ukraine has until the fall to return the territories occupied by Russia. If Ukrainian forces do not achieve significant battlefield success for six months, the West will pressure Kiev to enter into negotiations with Moscow.
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