It’s since when Vladimir Putin he started talking about negotiations starting from Istanbul draftin mid-May, which between Fly And Kiev a remote back and forth began to say what the minimum bases are for the parties to sit at the table. The head of Kremlinon June 14, made its conditions explicit: Kiev must leave the annexed regions and must renounce Born. For the Western Front this is not a proposal, but a simple one provocation. And she continued to bet everything on the peace summit in Switzerlandat which however they were not present Russia And China. But after the documents published by New York Times in which emerge the points that were discussed until the end of April 2022 and Putin’s statements according to which the agreement was wrecked by pressure from the Western alliesAlso Volodymyr Zelensky he wanted to tell his truth.
A truth that is different from that of the Kremlin leader. The failure of the talks started just a few weeks after the invasion was not the result, he says, of a boycott by the Western front, but of an ultimatum launched by Putin which, rather than an agreement, closely resembled a request for surrender. “The ultimatum they are not negotiations,” the Ukrainian president said in response to a question at the end of the peace summit Buergenstockafter the scoop of Nyt.
In published documents also Oleksandr Chalyia member of the Ukrainian negotiating team, said: “We had managed to find a real compromise. Between mid to late April (2022, ed), we were very close to ending the war with one peaceful solution”. What then blew it all up (Western pressure, the Bucha massacre or otherwise) it is difficult to establish. According to the president, however, the real reason was Putin’s attempt to impose the Russian position without admitting further dialogue. Putin, Zelensky recalls, “arrived with tanks, surrounded our capital” and Russian troops committed “atrocities” like those of Bucha, discovered and revealed to the world in April 2022. The “ultimatums” that Putin imposed then “they are not very different from the proposals of two days ago. Putin has no proposals, he only has ultimatums that give him the opportunity to take a break.” The Minsk agreements “they were a pause to prepare for the invasion”. Putin needs “breaks”, also because he “has lost his well-trained army” and therefore he needs time to reorganize.
