Russian demands to Ukraine: Top presidential aide unveils shocking details
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Wall Street Journal’s article about the Russia’s demands to Ukraine at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, commented by Advisor to the Head of the Presidential Office, Mykhailo Podolyak, on his Telegram on March 1.
“There were no real opportunities to negotiate” at the time, he said, adding that the known facts should be reassessed.
“The Russian Federation is entering another country on a large scale and killing citizens of that country en masse,” Podolyak said.
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“The goal is to seize the territory, reformat the state, direct and indirect occupation.”
According to Podolyak, at the first and subsequent stages of the negotiations, Russia ultimately demanded that the already occupied territories be given to it and legally renounced.
“To give up its subjectivity (not joining alliances, giving up cultural and informational identity), giving up its own army. These conditions were unchanged. How can we see an offer of “peace” rather than unconditional surrender?” he said.
Podolyak also emphasized that after the tactical defeats in the northern regions of Ukraine and the occupiers’ flight from Kyiv region, massive facts of Russia’s genocidal practices and its true intentions in Ukraine were revealed, which “finally made any contacts with Russia impossible.”
“There were no real opportunities to negotiate. Russia did not change the terms of surrender. Ukraine has never categorically accepted these conditions,” Podolyak said.
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“Today, Russia again wants to destroy Ukraine, but is looking for opportunities to bargain for an operational pause in order to complete militarization, expand mobilization, and scale up hostilities at the next stage. The question is: why periodically return to a non-existent topic and try to pass off the well-known surrender demands of the Russian Federation as something new, which absolutely could not lead to ‘peace’.”
Earlier, the WSJ published a story that contained the demands that Russia made of Ukraine at the beginning of the full-scale invasion.
The journalists read a 17-page document drawn up during peace talks between Kyiv and Moscow after the outbreak of a full-scale war. It is dated April 15, 2022.
The document states that in order to conclude peace, the aggressor country prohibits Ukraine from receiving foreign weapons and joining NATO. At the same time, it is allowed to join the EU. Kyiv also had to introduce the Russian language alongside Ukrainian in government and courts.
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