On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the “necessary conditions” for peace talks with Ukraine could arise and acknowledged Kyiv was not ready for negotiations at this time.
“We reached an agreement with them in Istanbul, but they’ve thrown all of that into the bin,” Putin said at a press conference in Sochi, according to Newsweek, referring to peace talks that were held in Istanbul at the end of March. “And now they’re refusing to discuss anything with us.”
In response to Russia’s annexation of the territory it controls in Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree ruling out peace talks with Russia as long as Putin is president. The US has ruled out the idea of pushing Ukraine to the negotiating table and says it’s up to Zelensky when talks will begin.
Putin said Russia is willing to wait until talks can happen. “How can we talk about possible agreements if the other side has no desire to even talk to us? Well, we can wait,” he said. “Maybe some necessary conditions will eventually arise; we have made our good will known.”
While the US and Ukraine have rejected the idea of diplomacy, over the past month, Russian officials have repeatedly stated that they’re open to talks. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said over the weekend that Moscow is “always ready to listen to our Western colleagues if they make another request to organize a conversation.”
Dan Rice, an American serving as an advisor to the commander of Ukraine’s armed forces, recently said that he believes Russia is trying to force negotiations to the “2014 lines,” the positions before the February 24th invasion. But Rice said Ukraine doesn’t want that, and Ukrainian officials have made clear they want to expel Russia from Crimea, which Moscow has controlled since 2014.
Talking is better than not talking… I hope that the necessary conditions arise to make that happen, though Crimea could be the sticky wicket… My concern is that possibilities may continue to deteriorate. It’s always better for nuclear countries to keep the phone lines open, as well as the path to peace…
As far as I am aware, the lines have been open on the Russian side since two months prior to the invasion near Kiev.
Open but Russian demands are the same and won’t change.
When one side seems aggressive and unfair in the demands they make, it is always worth looking at the broader context of what motivates them, as it is often because the apparent aggressor themselves feel victimized, which is why diplomacy is needed to avoid unnecessary conflict & find mutually acceptable outcomes.
Russia’s demand that Ukraine not join a hostile alliance against them might seem unreasonable towards Ukraine, but in the context of NATO & the West’s many aggressive wars and unambiguous history of hostility to Russia, it is unsurprising that the demand was made.
It is worth noting that Ukraine itself joined in the US led war against Iraq of 2003. This was based upon the claim that Iraq posed a threat to other countries, and thus was analogous to Russia’s demands for Ukraine’s neutrality.
More whining by Russia. Always someone else fault.
What on Earth are you talking about? Whining? This view is too infantile to be taken seriously.
How is anyone supposed to regard such a statement? Are you under the impression this is all some kind of joke, that we are supposed to titter over your apparent attempt at denigrating humor?
What on Earth are you talking about? Whining?
How is anyone supposed to regard such a statement? Are you under the impression this is all some kind of joke, that we are supposed to titter over your apparent attempt at denigrating humor?
Do us all a favor and find official statements by the Russian government where they said they will not negotiate with Ukraine as long as Zelensky is in power, or where they stated that they are not interested in a negotiated settlement.
Need a hug?
He has lots of hugs here… Do you need a hug DJ?…
F yeah, I need a hug. Always. Keeps me happy.
I am sending you a hug DJ…………………..
What else would you call it? Russia always blaming someone else. Oh poor Russia, a small country that they attacked is not willing to talk to them. Here is an idea, don’t bomb peoples homes and than expect them to come running to the negotiation table to sign a surrender document.
Kenny has no actual argument so he whines himself.
Another one for the blocking chop, no sense wasting time scrolling through his rants.
There will be no talking. Many more Ukraine citizens and soldiers to be killed, and, much more $$$ to be made by the MIC.
At least, not before the elections.
And how many more Russians will die?
“Maybe some necessary conditions will eventually arise” in the middle of the winter, after all Ukrainian electricity generation is switched off.
Despite the lip service, nobody in Washington even cares what Zelensky thinks… and he knows it. The only thing he can do is throw a wrench int the works.
Kyev is on life support. Without western aid, Zelensky cannot put an army in the field or pay to keep the lights on even when the grid is working. A third of the population has moved to other countries. Those who remain are weighing the cost of staying without basic services against the cost of moving.
Although the grain deal seems to have been resuscitated, Russia is gradually increasing the cost that western taxpayers will have to pay to keep the government of Ukraine from collapsing, and some of those taxpayers are already disgusted with their own governments over the self-inflicted economic contraction that is already present in Europe and just around the corner in the US.
Ukraine costs dear to NATO. Particular to European members. American strategists made a big miscalculation investing in Ukraine as into anti-Russian project. It only pushed Russia closer to China. Besides, the reunification of Donbass and Crimea with Russia, made Russia stronger than it was before 2014.
Huh… Who does he think he IS?
Zelansky signs a decree. Gotta love the interpretation of Ukrainian democracy. Western leaders are clearly envious.
Democracy ended in Ukraine when the government was violently overthrown with the obvious support of the US. It is forbidden to say that Crimea and the Donbass seceded at that instant of their own accord. But that IS what happened. Russia played the role of a facilitator, not an instigator.
One of these days, Zelensky is going to realize that, in addition to losing the hearts and minds of Crimea and the Donbass, almost a third of the remaining population has fled to other countries. The longer this goes on, the less likely it becomes that they will come back.
This is a case of who is the bigger idiot or fool,Zelensky or Biden. I figure it is a tie.
Uh, no. Maybe once upon a time. Not now.
Putin better hurries up and present a peace plan acceptable to Ukraine.
His fresh troops are starting mass mutinies.
https://youtu.be/M61owWbbgWs
Rupert Murdoch? Bwahahahahahaha.
I guess trolling stretches the war a slight bit? Of course it makes the warmongers look even more dumber afterwards but that’s never stopped the next one.
Then the ‘More Dumber’ part makes you a warmonger.
You need some AI.
the fact that Ukraine think’s they’re ever ever getting Crimea back shows just how delusional they are.
Not a chance. Ukraine might secretly wish it could get a re-do of the start of this war. Russia went big instead of just fighting alongside separatists because Ukraine had wrecked the hopes for Minsk 2, and the EU abandoned it.
Now they don’t have the option to just go back to what they lost when they decided on confrontation instead.
“Dan Rice, an American serving as an advisor to the commander of Ukraine’s armed forces, recently said that he believes Russia is trying to force negotiations to the “2014 lines,” the positions before the February 24th invasion.”
Yes, that would be their original offer. But original offers usually don’t stay on the table long. Especially if you can’t get anyone to sit down at the table with you. Plus, original offers can generally be negotiated down but again, you need someone on the other side of the table to be sitting down with you. So, whatever he knows about the “2014 lines” he didn’t learn about it at the negotiating table.
“Dan Rice, an American serving as an advisor to the commander of Ukraine’s armed forces”
Why is an American advising the Ukrainian military? Of course, we know that this is a proxy war started by senile angry Joey Biden and his shadow government of unelected NEOCON warmongers!
“Why is an American advising the Ukrainian military?”
Presumably for the same reason a Prussian (Baron von Steuben) and a Frenchman (Marquis de Lafayette) advised the US military. Some people go to other countries because war is what they do.
That was sarcasm!
“From each according to his ability”.
As far as I am concerned all of the deaths and refugees plus the crippling of Ukraine is on Biden and his warmongering cabinet and the MIC ,gullible press.
Well you are simply wrong. Russia invaded Ukraine. That is a fact.
Why J.F.Kennedy 1962 go crazy and nearly
nuclear annihilation occured when Soviets brought nuclear missile secretly in to Cuba?
That’s why Putin invaded to Ukraine.
If you are one of the “useful idiots” then you won’t know or you won’t believe although it’s truth.
When one calls another a “useful idiot” they should look in the mirror.
” Useful idiots” it’s expression referred to people supporting government narrative because of brain washed, propagandized.
Looking in the mirror won’t let you to see if you are or not useful idiots.
Nothing personal,and not needed to keep Harper- ing ! Your name is useful ( not idiot) to express.
This is creative English expression, although I am not English educated. Bravo,
Nobody is disputing that. But the invasion was legal according to the precedent set by R2P https://www.globalr2p.org/what-is-r2p/ as the army of Ukraine had been shelling the Donbas since 2014 killing over 14000 including children, failed to implement the Minsk accords, and had exponentially ramped up shelling on the Donbas in Feb 2022.
Legal invasion? What is that? There is no legal invasion. Russia started the war. When nations start a war they always believe they had the right to do such.
This is going to get grim this winter and when there’s been enough death and suffering it’ll end, hopefully in a nonnuclear fashion. And it’s “they’re open to talks”. The apocalypse can at least have proper spelling. …… OK, that’s better. At last I’ve made a difference.
But Putin is a bad man right? Biden is a good man right?
Well you certainly got the first sentence right.
Britain, France and US shut down Russia’s call to investigate Bio Weapons in Ukraine. Yep Putin is a bad man.