Russia is seeking to drag Ukraine into new negotiations to give it time to restore its military capabilities and launch a new offensive, an adviser to the Ukrainian presidency claimed today.
For weeks, the Kremlin has been “trying to persuade Ukraine to engage in negotiations” to “freeze the conflict, maintaining the current status quo in the occupied Ukrainian territories,” Mykhailo Podoliak told AFP. Russia is “carrying its proposals through various intermediaries,” he added, without naming them.
According to Kyiv, there is currently no contact with Russia at the political level.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who met his Russian counterpart in early August and then went to Ukraine on Friday for the first time in six months, has repeatedly said he is ready to mediate between Kiev and Moscow.
Ukraine, however, believes that in reality Moscow “does not want” serious peace negotiations but only an “operational pause” for its army, so that it can then launch a new offensive, Podoliak commented.
Kyiv rejects any negotiations over Russian-held territory, which it hopes to recapture. These include the territories under the control of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine as well as the Crimean peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014.
Podoliak assured that “Ukrainians will continue to resist as long as necessary. It is a war for our existence, we have no other solution. To give up the struggle will mean not only the destruction of the Ukrainian state but also of all its citizens.” , he underlined.
Source: AMPE
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