Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Monday rejected an Iraqi offer to mediate talks between Ukraine and Russia during a visit to Baghdad, his first since the Russian invasion.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein met with Kuleba and called for a ceasefire, saying it was the same message he gave to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov when he visited Baghdad in February.
“We always strive to be a part of the solution. Wars end with negotiation and dialogue; that’s why we believe in the language of dialogue,” Hussein said. “That’s why when we negotiate or discuss with officials in Moscow, and Minister Lavrov was here in the same hall, we mentioned the same principles, and we told them that we support a ceasefire and the start of negotiations.”
Hussein said that Iraq “has experience in communication with countries that have tension between them” and “is ready to be in service of peace.” But Kuleba declined the offer and reaffirmed Kyiv’s position that peace talks with Moscow can’t happen until Russia withdraws from all the territory it has captured.
“Russia is on the offensive … and this is the biggest hurdle on the way to peace,” Kuleba said. “We need Russia to agree with a very simple fact that it has to stop the war and withdraw.”
Kuleba has maintained a very hard line concerning peace talks with Moscow. He previously said negotiations could only happen after tribunals are held for alleged Russian war crimes. For their part, Moscow maintains any future peace deal must recognize the Ukrainian territory it has annexed as Russian, which is a non-starter for talks with Kyiv.
The piper has yet to be paid, for Russia….
What a bunch of crap. Kuleba is an idiot.
He’s probably a NeoNazi.
“Ukraine Rejects Iraqi Offer to Mediate Negotiations With Russia Ukrainian FM Dmytro Kuleba visited Baghdad on Monday”
Of course Ukraine wants unending war. Over 80% of the Ukrainian army conscripts and regular forces are Russian Ukrainians. Just genocide by another method and business as usual in this corrupt criminal he!! hole.
if you applied a bit of critical thinking to your claim you would realize that if it was true then the Ukrainian army would experience massive defections and early surrenders – is that what you have observed – if not then think why did the Afghans manage what Russians, forced into a Ukrainian army to fight a war they according to you do not want to fight, cannot?
Finally ethnic Russians made up less than 18% of the Ukrainian population in 2001, a substantial part of those were living in Crimea and the parts of Donetsk and Luhansk which are currently under Russian control, how does the Ukrainian army manage to get 80% of its recruits from what has to be a very low number of Russians left in the Ukrainian controlled areas?
https://web.archive.org/web/20070706003257/http://www.ukrcensus.gov.ua/eng/results/general/nationality/
Another weasel heard from. How are things at MI6 today?
So still no critical thinking – kind of sad!
Because I have to log on each time i get on this blog, I get to see some of the crazies I have blocked or blocked me. You are risking finger arthritis on this guy. He is straight up a racist and bigot. Full of it.
Still gets likes here and almost zero counters from the broader audience.
What would I know, I only rely on reports from Ukrainian conscripts in the trenches.
Don’t give me your CIA Fact Book data. It is not relevant to Ukraine where facts are hidden and propaganda is the only data available. Ukraine is hiding their demographic data on conscription and front line fighters.
No one including the Russians were (or indeed are as far as I know) disputing the facts quoted. As for Ukraine hiding the facts about the conscription and frontline fighters, well that is what happens during wars. Quoting propaganda as an alternative to facts only makes you look less like someone applying critical thinking.
Pay attention at the 12 minute mark in this video detailing the vast number of Eastern Ukrainians mobilized and notice that almost no Ukrainians from Western Ukraine are part of the conscripted troops.
Notice the lead up to the place you chose to quote (i.e. from 11:38) I quote:
“Now there is a theory on telegram that Ukraine is mainly drafting men from Russian speaking regions…”
So it’s a theory not a fact – based on Wagner information or n other words: Russian propaganda
Further notice that he follows the Russian propaganda with I quote:
“To be honest, even if there is some truth to it, a lot of it has been exaggerated, however the most important (thing) is that although they speak Russian they fight for Ukraine, and to my knowledge, there were never a discussion for them to prefer fighting for Russia.”
So even the source you quote says that this is coming from a Russian source, it is even if true exaggerated.
Case closed, or do you have better sources?
Yes, I do and they are not from the CIA Fact Book, but statements from those who are being conscripted and sent to die are just that. Pleadings from those who do not want to die. Direct comments to me.
I have literally hours of clips from disgruntled Russian conscripts, yet I do not argue that the Russians are in general only conscripting dissidents – because I think critically about the sources and the likelihood that what I observe may not be representative for the majority – if it was I would observe more surrenders.
You conclude based on so far one (or a few) videos of disgruntled supposedly angry Ukrainian (Russian speaking ones) that 80% of the Ukrainian conscripts are from the Russian speaking minority – good to know the low level of ‘proof’ necessary to convince Critical_Thinker – as long as it agrees with his views.
It would be great if Iraq could be a mediator of peace, with all that it has suffered over the past 40 years, mostly due to proxy-empire forces from without, and yet, with a great history and people like this minister, whose background probably is very profound, and really may have the ability, to negotiate complicated problems for mutual benefit
at some point ukraine will realize that they are not going to get crimea.
until then uncle sam will flood the entire region with munitions.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20230418/eu-dissenters-ban-ukraines-food-as-blocs-unity-crumbles-1109616681.html
EU Dissenters Ban Ukraine’s Food as Bloc’s Unity Crumbles
Perhaps an enraged-packed meme against Ukraine is picking up steam across Europe: We don’t want your imports, your citizens, and we’ll no longer send Kiev weapons.
Correction:
U.S. Rejects Iraqi Offer to Mediate Negotiations With Russia.