Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Kyiv and the “whole world” want Russia to participate in a summit to discuss peace in Ukraine.
Zelensky has organized several international meetings that have been billed as “peace summits,” but Russia hasn’t been invited to attend. The most recent was hosted by Switzerland, and some countries were critical of the lack of Russian participation.
“The majority of the world today says that Russia must be represented at the second summit, otherwise we will not achieve meaningful results,” Zelensky told reporters on Tuesday. “Since the whole world wants them to be at the table, we cannot be against it.”
Zelensky first said in July that he wanted Russia to attend the next summit, which marked a significant shift in his position. He had previously ruled out negotiations with Russia unless it withdrew from all the territory it captured in Ukraine, which is a non-starter for Moscow.
Russia has said it’s open to peace talks with Ukraine, but Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday that there are still no concrete plans for a summit. “First of all, so far, there is no summit with Russia’s participation being planned. From time to time, we hear such sporadic musings on Russia’s participation,” he said in a radio interview, according to TASS.
Peskov also cast doubt on Ukraine’s willingness to negotiate peace, saying it was “possible” to hold talks with Ukrainian officials but “impossible to trust them.”
Throughout the war, the only time a real peace deal was on the table was back in March and April of 2022. But the US and NATO discouraged Ukraine from signing an agreement and promised to support its fight against Russia.
This may be intended for a Washington audience … ?? It begins to dawn on him, he's out in the cold.
Maybe the US should come out and admit that neither Russia nor Ukraine have any say in whether the war goes on.
Zelensky is so full of shit it's coming out of his ears.
Throughout the war, the only time a real peace deal was on the table was back in March and April of 2022. But the US and NATO discouraged Ukraine from signing an agreement and promised to support its fight against Russia.
If there ever is an agreement reached, they should publish it side by side with the draft that wasn't allowed to be further negotiated in 2022. It's going to take a major war to get that offer again.
Ukraine is Russia.
No need for any deals.
We just need to not be so gentle anymore and will take it all back in no time.
But i like your approach.
There’s no need to pretend to be a pro-Russia troll here. We’ve already got several of the real thing, and they’re both far more believable and do a better job of making the Russian position look stupid.
Our position is…………….?
Some of us regard the instigator for this entire current exercise in slaughter to be sitting, drooling away in the white house.
The Russian position as stated by the Russians is hardly stupid by any measure. It's only stupid when any of us speaks for them. What is and remains stupid is the past 23 years of so-called US foreign policy (which, as an American, I can speak to, if not for), leading directly to the current situation on the ground in Ukraine. Not everyone here is asleep.
The war being pursued by Russia is not a conventional war. It is also not a conventional proxy war. It is a war being conducted on a teeter totter which must not be allowed to tilt too much to either side. Chess, not checkers, or worse, pickup sticks.
You misunderstand my comments.
“The majority of the world today says that Russia must be represented at the second summit, otherwise we will not achieve meaningful results,” Zelensky told reporters on Tuesday. “Since the whole world wants them to be at the table, we cannot be against it.”
Maybe something is lost in translation? Because how it could be otherwise, regardless of what the "majority of the world," or even the "whole world," says? You want to have a "peace summit," while you are at war? Well then, it is pretty much axiomatic that your adversaries not only have to be invited, but have to attend too, or there will be no results at all.
What transpired recently in Switzerland could be described in many ways, but "peace summit" is not one of them.
Agreed, a "war summit" is more appropriate.
Great point and fully agree.
What amazes me is how everyone is dancing around the elephant in the room somehow thinking Russia is going to backdown. Despite the Empire's billions and all BS rhetoric, Ukraine is going to lose. Not today or tomorrow, but they will lose.
They know exactly what Russia will concede to. What are they waiting for? Odesa to fall next?
This isn't Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, etc. Interestingly enough, how did those peace summits go?
Technically, NK and SK are still at war. There was a cessation of hostilities, but not a truce of any sort. After we bombed NK (including dams), killing more than 1 million, just leveled nearly every city. A "police action" we called it.
Most of the world has turned against the west which represents much smaller part of the “whole world.”
The only peace deal is for Ukrainians out of our land.
What a complete Doofus this idgit is. Not to mention a royal pain in the planet's ass.
I hope he has life insurance. Azov is watching.
Russia will not fall into the trap…!