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Conciliatory tones from Russia: Putin ready for negotiations with Ukraine

2022-12-28T03:57:20.282Z


Ukraine war: US organization describes Putin's willingness to negotiate as a bluff for the West Created: 12/28/2022, 4:45 am By: Sandra Kathe, Niklas Kirk, Daniel Dillmann Ukraine plans a peace summit with the UN without Russia. But the confederation reacted cautiously to the proposal. The news ticker. Willingness to talk in the Kremlin: Russian President Vladimir Putin ready to negotiate with


Ukraine war: US organization describes Putin's willingness to negotiate as a bluff for the West

Created: 12/28/2022, 4:45 am

By: Sandra Kathe, Niklas Kirk, Daniel Dillmann

Ukraine plans a peace summit with the UN without Russia.

But the confederation reacted cautiously to the proposal.

The news ticker.

  • Willingness to talk in the Kremlin:

    Russian President Vladimir Putin ready to negotiate with Ukraine

  • Summit in Moscow:

    Russia calls for an informal summit in the Ukraine war

  • Editor's note: 

    Read the latest news and developments from the Ukraine conflict here.

    Some of the information from the Ukraine war processed here comes from Russia or the Ukraine and thus from the warring parties themselves. This information can therefore not be independently verified.

+++ 5.30 p.m .:

According to an assessment by the US think tank Institute for the Study of War (ISW), the Russian ruler Vladimir Putin’s willingness to talk should be understood less as an offer of peace than as a bluff to the West.

This was reported by the online medium

Kyiv Independent

on Tuesday.

According to experts at the US organization, Putin's apparent concession was primarily aimed at influencing Ukraine's western partners.

The Kremlin ruler's goal could be for Western partners to persuade Ukraine to make concessions soon.

ISW experts described Putin's statement on Sunday (December 25) about Russia's willingness to talk as a "targeted information campaign" aimed more at potential talks with the West than at an agreement with Ukraine.

They continue to see Russia as a plaything for the West.

Putin made it clear that he was ready to talk over the Christmas weekend, but military experts do not see this as a peace offer.

(Iconic photo) © Alexei Danichev/AFP

Basis for negotiations in the Ukraine war: Lavrov destroys hopes for peace in the near future

+++ 11.45 a.m .:

Could there soon be peace negotiations between Moscow and Kiev in the Ukraine war?

After all, Vladimir Putin has declared his readiness for talks.

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has now unequivocally announced that Ukraine must meet Moscow's demands.

Otherwise the Russian military will do so.

Lavrov reiterated well-known demands such as recognition of the occupied territories, "demilitarization" and "denazification" of the rest of Ukraine, and security guarantees.

"The thing is quite simple: fulfill them for your own good," Lavrov said in an interview with the Russian news agency

Tass

.

"Otherwise the matter will be decided by the Russian army."

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Update from Tuesday, December 27, 9:25 a.m .:

The United Nations has received a proposal from Ukraine for an international peace summit with reluctance.

"As the Secretary-General has said many times in the past, he can only mediate if all parties want him to mediate," said UN spokeswoman Florencia Soto Nino-Martinez, referring to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba's move.

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Negotiations on the Ukraine war: Kyiv announces an upcoming peace summit

++ 9.40 p.m .:

At the end of February, representatives of Ukraine are to meet with United Nations officials and their Secretary General António Guterres for a peace summit.

According to the online newspaper

Kyiv Independent

, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba announced this on Monday (December 26) and stressed that the United Nations, as an independent party, was an ideal partner for a peace summit.

However, Kuleba ruled out Russia's participation unless the country had previously accounted for itself before a war crimes tribunal.

The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had already announced possible peace talks in December.

Ukraine will probably take positions similar to those in a peace paper presented in November, in which the country called for the withdrawal of Russian troops by the end of 2022, an end to ecocide, the release of all prisoners of war and recognition of the country's sovereignty.

The Kremlin said that Ukraine would have to accept "new realities" and thus the annexation of the regions in the east of the country in order to be able to negotiate.

Russia says it is ready to negotiate – Ukraine instead requests Russian expulsion from the UN

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After the announcement to apply for the exclusion of Russia from the United Nations, the Ukrainian government has put its plan into action.

The rationale for the request was set out in a public statement.

Specifically, according to a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ukraine "is calling for the Russian Federation to be stripped of its status as a permanent member of the UN Security Council and expelled from the United Nations as a whole".

The initiative is justified by the fact that Russia's admission in 1991 would not have taken place on the basis of the applicable rules of the UN Charter and Russia would only have occupied the former seat of the Soviet Union in the UN Security Council illegally.

According to an assessment by the German Press Agency, however, the application has little chance of success: As a permanent member, Russia, alongside the USA, Great Britain, France and China, is a member of the most powerful body in the UN, the Security Council, and thus has the right to veto it can block important decisions.

Putin ready to negotiate – Melnyk vehemently rejects this as “pure bluff”.

+++ 12.04 p.m .:

The former Ukrainian ambassador to Germany, Andriy Melnyk, commented on possible peace negotiations with Moscow to

the

dpa .

He clearly rejects this.

"All the Kremlin talk about Putin's alleged willingness to negotiate is pure bluff, mainly aimed at garnering sympathy in the West, unsettling societies - including in Germany - and crumbling the resolve of our allies.

You can't allow that," said Melnyk.

At the moment there is no alternative but to provide massive military support to Ukraine in order to create a real chance for negotiations.

The deputy foreign minister categorically ruled out that Ukraine would give up parts of its national territory.

Neither the illegal annexation of Crimea nor the Russian appropriation of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Cherson or Zaporizhia regions in the east and south of the country will ever be recognized.

“This is unacceptable for Kyiv.

That will never happen,” said Melnyk.

Ukraine calls for Russia's exclusion from UN Security Council

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As the French news agency AFP reports, Ukraine wants to apply for the exclusion of Russia as a permanent member of the UN Security Council on Monday (December 26).

"Tomorrow we will officially state our position," Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Ukrainian television late Sunday evening.

"We have a very simple question: does Russia have the right to remain a permanent member of the UN Security Council and to be in the United Nations at all?".

"We have a compelling and reasoned answer: No, it didn't," he added.

According to Kuleba, the issue is already being discussed in diplomatic circles.

The most powerful body of the United Nations consists of 15 members.

Its job is to deal with global crises, such as imposing sanctions, approving military action and approving amendments to the UN Charter.

In addition to Russia, the five permanent members with veto power include the USA, Great Britain, France and China.

Putin ready for negotiations with Ukraine - Germans do not believe in a quick end to the war

Update from Monday, December 26, 7:52 a.m .:

A large majority of people in Germany do not believe that the war in Ukraine will end soon.

This is the result of a survey by YouGov on behalf of the German Press Agency, which the

dpa

reported on in the morning.

57 percent of respondents believe that the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine will last at least until the end of 2023.

Only 27 percent expect it to end later this year.

19 percent do not provide any information.

The survey also asked about attitudes towards possible negotiations between the warring parties.

A large majority of 55 percent are in favor of Ukraine immediately negotiating with Russia to end the war.

Only 27 percent of respondents say it is not the right time for peace talks.

The desire for negotiations prevails among the voters of all parties represented in the Bundestag.

However, it is least pronounced among supporters of the Greens (46 percent), the SPD (52 percent) and the FDP (53 percent).

In contrast, 80 percent of AfD voters would like representatives of Ukraine and Russia to sit down at one table.

Putin ready for negotiations with Ukraine – Kyiv calls for tribunal

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Russia’s offers to talk about negotiations in the Ukraine war trigger skepticism in Kiev.

"Russia does not want negotiations and is trying to avoid responsibility (for the war)," tweeted Sunday Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

According to Podoljak, the government of Ukraine is demanding "a tribunal" of an international court of justice before which the Russian leadership must answer.

+++ 19:38:

In his Christmas speech, the Pope called for an end to the war in Ukraine.

He condemned the senseless violence and called on both sides to negotiate.

War in Ukraine: Russia calls for summit in Moscow

+++ 5.48 p.m

.: An informal summit of the “Commonwealth of Independent States” (CIS) is to take place in Moscow on December 26th and 27th.

Russian President Vladimir Putin had invited the Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko, among others.

When it was founded, Ukraine was also a member.

In 2018, two years after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula, the country left the Union.

Update, 3:35 p.m .:

In a video speech, President Volodymyr Zelenskyj addressed the people of Ukraine.

He wished people a Merry Christmas.

Referring to the ongoing attacks from Russia, Zelenskyy said: "We will not wait for a miracle.

We will do one thing ourselves.” The Ukrainian President did not respond to Vladimir Putin's indirect offers of talks.

Negotiations in the Ukraine war?

Putin seems ready

First report from December 25th, 2022:

Moscow – The combat operations in the Ukraine war did not take a break at Christmas either.

Troops from shelled the Ukrainian city of Cherson on Sunday night (December 24, 2022).

Ukraine, in turn, reported that its own forces had managed to destroy several Russian combat vehicles.

But on Sunday morning Moscow struck a different note.

Russian President Vladimir Putin personally said in an interview with the state-controlled TV channel

Rossya 1

about the ongoing conflict in Ukraine: "We are ready to negotiate acceptable solutions with all parties involved, but that is up to them - we are not refusing negotiations, They are.” In the interview, Putin also stressed that the Russian army was “on the right track” with its deployment in Ukraine.

Ukraine war: Putin sees no great danger in the conflict with the West

He again blamed the West.

The goal of a foreign alliance led by the United States is to tear Russia apart.

It was also the West that started the Ukraine conflict in the first place in 2014 - by driving the then pro-Russian President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, out of office during the Maidan protests in Kyiv.

But in the interview, in which Putin addressed negotiations with Ukraine for the first time in a long time, the Russian president tried to downplay the conflict with the West.

This has not reached a dangerous level.

Putin once again called the invasion of the troops he commanded a “special military operation”.

The word “war”, which the President had used for the first time days earlier, was again omitted this time.

Negotiations in the Ukraine war: No results so far

Even after more than 300 days of war in Ukraine, there have been no serious negotiations on a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy's government in Kyiv has always emphasized that it will only consider negotiations once all Russian troops have left Ukrainian soil.

According to Selenskyj, these would not only include the areas conquered in the war that has been going on since February last year.

Russia would also have to withdraw from the Crimean Peninsula, annexed in 2014.

In the past few days, Moscow has again emphasized that it will be ready to negotiate once the goals of the military special operation have been achieved.

What these goals are remains the Kremlin's secret.

(Daniel Dillman)

Source: merkur

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