Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev said Thursday that Ukraine was ready to sign a peace deal with Russia in the early days of the war but gave up on negotiations due to US pressure.
“Had it not been for the US pressure on those whom they installed at the head of Ukraine, this situation would have not happened. Even the Ukrainian leaders themselves were ready for signing a peace treaty and gave Russia written proposals that we, in principle, approved,” Patrushev said. He said there are “interested parties in this conflict,” mainly the US and the UK.
Russian and Ukrainian negotiators held in-person talks at the end of March 2022 in Istanbul and followed up with virtual consultations. According to the account of former US officials speaking to Foreign Affairs, the two sides agreed on the framework for a tentative deal that would have involved a Russian withdrawal in exchange for Ukrainian neutrality.
But in April 2022, then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson traveled to Kyiv and urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky not to negotiate with Russia. According to a report from Ukrainska Pravda, Johnson said even if Zelensky was ready to sign a deal with Putin, Kyiv’s Western backers were not.
According to Ukrainska Pravda, Johnson’s position was that of “the collective West, which back in February [2022] had suggested Zelensky should surrender and flee, now felt that Putin was not really as powerful as they had previously imagined, and that here was a chance to ‘press him.'” The report said Russia was open to a Putin-Zelensky meeting at the time, but that possibility came to a halt after Johnson’s visit.
Then-Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennet was trying to mediate between Putin and Zelensky in March 2022 and gave a similar account of the West’s position. He said the US and its allies “blocked” his mediation effort and that he thought there was a “legitimate decision by the West to keep striking Putin” and not negotiate.
After peace talks were scuttled in April 2022, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said he expected the conflict to end after the Istanbul talks but then realized some countries in NATO wanted to prolong the war to “weaken” Russia. A few days after Cavusoglu’s comments, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin admitted that one of the US’s goals in supporting Ukraine is to see Russia “weakened.”
The Biden administration has not dropped its opposition to peace talks as Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently rejected the idea of a ceasefire and vowed to continue building up Ukraine’s military.
That is believable, Still once you unleash the chaos of war all sorts of unpredictable things happen.
This was reported contemporaneously.
Still, it can’t be repeated often enough on account of it exposes so starkly the enormity of the criminality of the Liders of the Free World.
Oh I agree. But the propaganda pipeline will kill history and dispute facts. I was reminding that this actually occurred and was reported on by western media. The same western media that reported on Nazis in Ukraine but would like to pretend they never did because it’s inconvenient to their current reporting.
Well said ED. Sorry for the the rhyme.
In some corners, perhaps, but not widely. Because in March of 2022, the front-page headline of every major newspaper was shouting, “Bloody Murder” and every secondary outlet echoed that. It was widely reported that Boris Johnson visited Ukraine and that Ukraine backed away from negotiations afterward, but what Boris actually said still remains under wraps. I’m pretty sure it was less, “Go get ’em, tiger” and more “Keep fighting or Ukraine’s money stream goes dry and you’re screwed”.
You are the early bird that gets the worm ED.
The US is behaving like a bit of an a-hole. I would think that peace is preferable?… Do we, USA, want potential war with Russia?……………..
No, Donna, we want it with China 😐
Obviously the blob wants it with both.
The Russians have to deal with insanity, corruption and coercion on the Biden/Nuland/Blinken side. War is big profitable business, Zelensky and his Nazi oligarchs sold Ukraine a long time ago. And all of that is true of other NATO government officials. Only so are the elected NATO government officials plausible. Germany never had such a low bunch of characterless trashy and incompetent leadership in 2000 years of history. Before Hitler there was Versailles but nothing like that before there was Scholz and Baerbock and Harbeck and all the other trash like von der Leyen and the whole ample coalition parties. They are criminals and morally the pits.
“Russian withdrawal in exchange for Ukrainian neutrality”
This is the biggest BS i’ve read lately. Not even the Russians believe this crap.
Reading comprehension problem perhaps?
actually it says = “”According to the account of former US officials speaking to Foreign Affairs, the two sides agreed on the framework for a tentative deal that would have involved a Russian withdrawal in exchange for Ukrainian neutrality.””
and there is a link in there which leads to SURPRISE! an antiwar article =
https://news.antiwar.com/2022/08/31/report-russia-ukraine-tentatively-agreed-on-peace-deal-in-april/
Exactly. BS. Thanks for solidifying the reason for my comment.
You’re calling an antiwar.com article BS? Why are you here?
It was never on offer from the Russians, it came with demands to recognize that LPR and DPR as independent and Crimea as Russian, but they want you to forget about this now!
Just had conversation with a friend. He said the same thing.
I had a lengthy discussion with an expert who is the first cousin of my wife’s brother-in-law and he said what you said is incorrect.
Drinky, drinky again?
“Russian Official Says Ukraine Was Ready to Sign Peace Deal Early in the War But Gave Up Due to US Pressure”
The blood of hundreds of thousands of people is on the hands of Joey Biden and his puppet master obama.
As if they really care.