Ukraine is close to a peace agreement, but the United States has applied pressure

Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev said Thursday that the Ukrainian leadership is ready to settle the conflict with Russia, but backed down under American pressure. This was reported by the Russian news agency TASS.

“If it were not for the pressure of the United States on those who put the leadership in Ukraine, this situation would not have happened. Even the Ukrainian leaders themselves were ready to sign a peace treaty and made written proposals to Russia, according to which she said in principle, we agreed, ”said Patrushev, apparently referring to Negotiations between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Turkey.

However, as Patrushev continued, “in the morning they gave us [τα μέλη της ουκρανικής αντιπροσωπείας] [τις προτάσεις] And during the negotiations and in the evening they said: “No, we are abandoning them.”

As Patrushev noted, “there are parties involved in this conflict,” primarily the United States and Great Britain.

Istanbul document

The first Russian-Ukrainian negotiations after the start of the Russian invasion were held in Belarus in early March 2022, but did not produce results.

A new round of negotiations was held in Istanbul on March 29, 2022, after which the head of the Russian delegation, Presidential Adviser Vladimir Medinsky, announced that Moscow had received from Kiev for the first time the principles of a possible future agreement as far as he knew, which specified, in particular, Ukraine’s obligations to neutrality and non-alignment, and rejected them. The deployment of foreign forces and weapons, including nuclear weapons, on its territory.

Russia withdrew its forces from the Kiev and Chernigov regions. However, the peace settlement negotiations froze completely after that and, as Russian President Vladimir Putin said, Kiev abandoned the agreements reached in Istanbul.

In October last year, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky implemented a decision by the country’s National Security and Defense Council to ban any conversation with Putin.