The Reuters in his publication he states that the Vladimir Putin could succeed agreement with the Ukrainein order to prevent war, but changed his mind at the last minute, resulting in armed conflict.
Specifically, the agency said it contacted the Russian president’s chief envoy for Ukraine, who said that as soon as the war began, he had offered the Russian leader a preliminary deal with Kyiv that would satisfy Russia’s demand that Ukraine stay out. of NATO, but Putin rejected it and continued his military operation.
According to Reuters interlocutors, Putin’s emissary Dmitry Kozak who was born in Ukraine, told Putin that in his view the deal he had brokered eliminated the need for Russia to pursue a large-scale occupation of Ukraine and recommended that the president adopt the agreement.
Kozak’s recommendation to Putin to adopt the deal was first reported by Reuters. Russian President Dmitry Peskov’s spokesman, asked to comment on this information, said: “This has absolutely nothing to do with reality. There was nothing like it. It’s completely wrong information.” Kozak did not respond to requests for comment on the matter, which were sent to him through the Kremlin.
“Putin just changed the plan as he went along”
The adviser to the Ukrainian president Michael Podoliak said Russia used the negotiations as a smoke screen to prepare its invasion, but did not answer questions about the substance of the talks or confirm that a preliminary agreement had been reached. “Today, we clearly understand that the Russian side was never interested in a peaceful settlement,” Podoliak said.
Two of the three imgs they stated that the attempt to reach an agreement ended immediately after the February 24 invasion. Within days, Kozak believed he had succeeded in getting Ukraine to agree to Russia’s main terms and recommended that Putin sign a deal, the imgs said.
“After February 24 in Kozak he acted in white: they gave him the green light, he had made the deal. He brought her back and was told to leave. Everything was cancelled. Putin just changed the plan as he went along,” said one of the imgs close to the Russian leadership.
The third img – who was briefed on the events by people briefed on discussions between Kozak and Putin – differed on the timing (of the deal), saying that Kozak had proposed the deal to Putin, which he rejected, shortly before the invasion. All the imgs asked to remain anonymous to share sensitive inside information.
The 63-year-old Kozak he has been Putin’s loyal deputy since working with him in the 1990s in the office of the mayor of St. Petersburg.
Kozak was able to negotiate a peace deal because, starting in 2020, Putin had tasked him with holding talks with his Ukrainian counterparts over eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, which is controlled by Russian-backed separatists after a 2014 uprising. .After leading the Russian delegation in talks with Ukrainian officials in Berlin on February 10 – brokered by France and Germany – Kozak told a press conference that the latest round of those negotiations had ended without a significant result.
Source: News Beast
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