Status: 16.01.2024, 19:05 PM
By: Lisa Mahnke
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The Ukrainian Foreign Minister is extremely rabid in an informal interview. Tensions are emerging on the Russian side.
Kiev – Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has already wanted to "slap the nose" on his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov several times. A concrete example: negotiations in Antalya in spring 2022, where no agreement could be reached. Kuleba stated this in a "rapid-fire" Q&A session with a Ukrainian blogger.
The talks focused on a ceasefire and possible humanitarian corridors. However, there was no sign of a compromise in the talks and there have been no new negotiations since then. On the Ukrainian side, President Volodymyr Zelensky rejects all talks until Russian troops leave a little less than 20 percent of the captured Ukrainian territory. Russian President Putin said he was ready for talks. At the same time, however, he adheres to the so-called "special military operation".
Ukraine is not thinking about negotiations
The statements from the interview were met with criticism in Russia. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told The Daily Izvestia: "And this is the problem: uneducated, aggressive people were recruited under the pretext of serving as ministers to ruin Ukraine for American money."
Meanwhile, in the face of dwindling international support, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba again asked for further military aid, primarily from the United States. "Whatever the price of supporting Ukraine now, the price of eliminating chaos in the world in the event of a Ukrainian defeat will be much higher," Kuleba told ABC News in an interview.
Foreign Minister Kuleba spoke informally. Its Russian counterpart is heating up. © picture alliance/dpa | Sven Hoppe
The foreign minister is on Zelensky's side, and peace negotiations are out of the question for him at the moment. "Even if we run out of weapons, we will fight with shovels. Because what is at stake for Ukraine is the existence of this nation," Kuleba added on the motivation of Ukrainians.
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While aid to Ukraine from the EU is also a long time coming, EU Economy Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni spoke out in favour of further support for Ukraine at a meeting of EU finance ministers on Tuesday, but also called for the "support of all international partners". (dpa/LisMah)