In Munich
“It will be up
to the Ukrainians
to define the conditions of peace
”: to this mantra, repeated many times during the Munich security conference, Dimitri Kuleba, the Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs replied quite abruptly: “
The peace will be established with Russia when
Vladimir Putin
or his successor, whoever he is, comes
to Kiev
to kneel in front of the memorial to the Ukrainian victims of Russian aggression
”, launched the head of diplomacy.
This gesture, the German Chancellor Willy Brandt had accomplished in Warsaw in December 1970, in tribute to the 450,000 Jewish prisoners of the Ghetto.
It is hard to imagine that the head of the Kremlin could repeat it and endorse such a heavy symbol.
The exit of Dimitri Kuleba crystallizes all the difficulty of Western leaders to define an outcome to the war and to project themselves on the path of negotiations.
While claiming to delegate responsibility for the task to kyiv, European leaders wish to influence…
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