Russia never offers real negotiations until it suffers a significant defeat. This was stated by Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, UNN reports.
Russia, deliberately starting a large-scale war in Ukraine, proceeded only from an unconditional desire to completely destroy the subjectivity and sovereignty of Ukraine, to capture, absorb and ruin as many Ukrainian territories as possible, to put a puppet government at the head of the destroyed country, leaving the country in total dependence on the desires and plans of Russia itself. Russia's larger plan was to scare the Western elites by initiating a bloody war with Ukraine, to begin the process of restoring the USSR and to ensure further aggressive dominance on the European continent
He emphasized that neither in February/March 2022, nor at any other time, and especially today, there were and could be no "real peace talks".
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"We should not live under illusions. russia has never negotiated - it has ultimately demanded that we recognize its right to kill. Now the Russian Federation continues to show that it needs to "fulfill all the tasks of the JFO", to achieve legal recognition of Russia's ownership of all the annexed territories, and most importantly, under no circumstances to lose the war in order not to be held responsible for massive demonstrative war crimes," Podolyak said.
He also said that any statements by Russia about "negotiations" are an attempt to justify aggression and avoid responsibility.
"Therefore, any statements by the aggressor country about "negotiations" or that "Russia never intended to conquer Ukraine", even despite the obvious large-scale invasion, mass killings of civilians, systematic arrangement of torture and filtration camps in the occupied territories, abduction of children, is an unconditional attempt to justify the aggression, avoid responsibility, absolve itself of accusations of unilateral aggression with obvious genocidal intentions and. ... to get an operational/tactical pause in the war itself. During the pause, Ukraine's partners will be plunged into information chaos, adjustments will be made to their military strategy, military production will be updated, and destructive actions will be sharply increased in the next stage of the war. Russia never offers real negotiations until it suffers a significant defeat," Podoliak said.
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