Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba visited China on Wednesday and signaled Ukraine was ready to resume peace talks with Russia.
According to Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry, Kuleba told Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi that Kyiv “is ready to engage the Russian side in the negotiation process at a certain stage when Russia is ready to negotiate in good faith, but emphasized that no such readiness is currently observed on the Russian side.”
The Kremlin responded and said that Kuleba’s comments were in line with Russia’s position. “We have all learned from reports from Beijing that he made such a statement at a meeting with Mr. Wang Yi. One might say that the message in itself is in line with our position,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
“You know, Russia has never rejected talks, remaining open for a negotiation process. However, details are important here and we don’t know them yet. So let’s wait for some clarifications that will apparently follow,” he added.
Also on Wednesday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s recent comments about potential peace talks couldn’t be trusted. “No one has any faith in him,” she said. “Everyone understands perfectly well that this is a man who can twist anything, who can lie, who can abandon everything.”
Since peace talks broke down in the early days of the invasion, Ukraine’s position has been that there will be no negotiations with Russia until Russian forces withdraw from all the territory they have captured, which is a non-starter for Moscow. But in recent weeks, Zelensky has signaled he’s considering changing that policy.
Throughout the war, the US and its top NATO allies have discouraged peace talks with Russia and worked to sabotage the chances of a deal when Russian and Ukrainian officials were engaged in negotiations back in March and April 2022.
Russia has won. The only negotiations at this point are the terms of surrender.
Surrender and Russia takes total control over Ukraine.
It’s the only term of the negotiations.
Pretty dense statement. Russia never intended to to that. You know it.
Sorry, you probably not Russian.
Ukraine is Russia and we are taking it back.
I dont need to be politically correct, im not in the USA.
Putin has no plans to reconstruct the USSR and the only regions of Ukraine he wants for Russia are Crimea and other Russian Speaking Regions of the country.
Ukraine persecutes the Russian Speaking Peoples, that's why they want to join Russia.
The Western Media portrays Putin as a Warmonger that wants to reconstruct the USSR.
The US, Israel and many of their other allies are the biggest warmongering, meddlesome nations on Earth.
Yes. Other than Odessa and parts of the Kherson Oblast, I doubt that Russia has any interest in the parts of Ukraine that are west of the Dnipro.
Kiev regime is short of men and munitions and needs a break. They hope Russia will agree for a ceasefire.
Russia will never agree to a cease fire.
No reason for that, not until we achieve our objectives.
Agree. Had the Kyev regime and its western allies honored the Minsk ceasefire instead of using the agreement to build up their military, this war might not have happened.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Doesn't sound very much like "readiness for peace talks".
Biden thinks of Ukraine as a pawn in his game of weakening Russia. He will never be ready for peace talks, and Ukraine has very little say in the matter. But Biden won't be running the country in 6 months. With the losses on the battlefield and the possibility that negotiations could go forward soon, both sides may be posturing. That they are talking about it at all could be a good sign.
Zelensky: "Blah blah blah blah blah…" Then gets immediately stumped when asked, "explain all you know about peace talks."
Agreements were made, documents initialed. In 2022. Then the U.S. dispatched Boris to tell Zelenski not to sign, but keep fighting. I believe "or else" was additional told to him. The minute he falters, he will be pushed into an armed carrier, only to exit in a casket.
Boris doesn’t control anything. Russia does and there is no negotiation unless Russia takes all of its land back.
Ukraine is Russia.
Don’t believe the West propaganda.
Who is this "Boris"? Is it Boris Johnson, former PM of the UK?
Yes.
Zelensky is no longer the legal president since his term expired and Ukraines constitution makes illegal any negotiations with Russia.
You are correct.
Ukraine doesnt exist. Ukraine is not a nation.
Ukraine is just one oblast that belongs to Russia.
Wait a minute here…..
The global audience waiting for a 'Summer 2024-active defence-counteroffensive-Storm Shadow-Abrams-Crimean Drone Onslaught……..'
They had 8 years to prepare; peace was derailed in 2022 c/o Johnson (as directed by the Empire).
According to Zelensky, Ukrainian battlefield casualties are around 31,000 compared to Russia's 500,000. Peace? Who needs peace, right?
I guess the peace Ukraine is waiting for is the BS nonsense of Russia making a full withdrawal, having all Russians on historical Russian lands stop speaking Russian, zero Orthodox Church, no more Jan 7 Christmas, children being taught only Ukrainian in schools and the other systematic ethnic cleansing they have been trying so hard to execute in the east since 2014.
Thank you Victoria Nuland.
The Empire, EU and the installed Ukrainian proxy-puppet had their chance. Their own hubris failed them.
Peace should have been promoted, but it was not, and, could never have been realized due to the control by the global hegemon and it's 'aspirations' for the region.
Just like the daft Democrats propping Joe Biden until it was unbearable to watch. That's what it took for them to realize that their strategy was in desperate need of adjustment.
“We finally beat Medicare,” Biden continued.
“He did beat Medicare. He beat it to death,” Trump, responded.
That's what we have to wait for. A carefully scripted narrative that will have the hegemon proudly exit on it's own terms, somehow trying to convince the global community of the BS narrative and lies it has convinced itself of over all these years.
Then we will have peace.
Utter waste of everyone's time, yet again. There will be no "negotiations" except a demand of unconditional surrender by the Russians when time makes it clear there is no more Ukrainian army.
Ukraine, Russia and China should have negotiations to end the war without the USA. Ukraine won't agree to that. It wants to keep the Russian Speaking Regions although the people there want to join Russia. Zelensky wants to draft all the men of fighting age until the only males left are the ones too young or too old to fight and he would have to import males from NATO countries and Israel to fight.
There is no peace only pieces.