The United States plans to force Russia to negotiate with Ukraine on Kiev’s terms by the end of 2024.
This was announced by Jonathan Finer, the US President’s principal deputy adviser for national security. According to him, the terms of the negotiations should be based on the United Nations Charter on the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of Ukraine.
As he explained, Washington’s goal is to convince Moscow to make a choice: either the country will sit at the negotiating table, or Ukraine will be supported by a “stronger industrial base in the United States and Europe,” which will give the country the will give you the opportunity to go on the attack.
– This is a very difficult strategic choice. I don’t know what the Russians will ultimately decide. But we would like to create such a dilemma for them, Finer said. He added that to achieve this goal, the US and the EU will increase weapons production and also help Ukraine in this regard. – In a year and a half we will have a much stronger base than today, Biden’s advisor said.
Russia and Ukraine set conditions for ending the war
The condition for Ukraine to start negotiations with Russia is the withdrawal of Russian troops from the country’s territory and the return to the 1991 borders. Moscow rejects these demands and calls on Kiev to recognize the “new territorial reality” that emerged during the war has emerged, i.e. the Russian situation. annexation of four oblasts of Ukraine (Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donetsk and Luhansk) and the Crimean Peninsula.
The dialogue on the resolution of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict was officially interrupted in the spring of 2022, after the bodies of several dozen civilians were found in Bucha near Kiev, abandoned by Russian troops. The last direct meeting of the delegation took place on March 29 last year. in Istanbul.
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has proposed a bilateral meeting with Vladimir Putin four times. Moscow has regularly refused, citing the lack of “specific issues” for discussion at the level of heads of state.
Zelensky no longer wants to talk to Putin
Late last summer, as Ukraine began to achieve successes on the front, Putin’s position changed and he made it clear – through Turkish President Recep Erdogan – that he was not against a meeting with Zelensky. In response, Kiev set a condition for the withdrawal of Russian troops.
Zelensky also said negotiations would become impossible if “referenda” were held in the occupied territories of Ukraine on their incorporation into the Russian Federation.
After the annexation of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson oblasts, the Ukrainian president fulfilled his promise by signing a decree refusing dialogue with Moscow under Putin.
Zelensky last presented his position in mid-May, stating that negotiations with the Russian president were pointless because he would attack Ukraine again if he was not defeated.
In late November, Putin called the war in Ukraine a “tragedy,” again arguing that Russia “has never refused peace negotiations.”
Source: Do Rzeczy
Roy Brown is a renowned economist and author at The Nation View. He has a deep understanding of the global economy and its intricacies. He writes about a wide range of economic topics, including monetary policy, fiscal policy, international trade, and labor markets.
