After the Putin-TRUMP discussion, Moscow claims that the ball is now in the land of Kiev: “We hope that at least the instinct of preserving the remains of the state will prevail”

Russia said on Tuesday that Ukraine should decide whether or not to cooperate on discussing the memorandum to precede a potential future peace agreement that Moscow has invoked in discussions with the US. In this sense, Russia rely on Kiev to prevail “the instinct of preserving the remains of the state”, which would oblige the Ukrainian side to adopt “a constructive position”, said the spokesman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zaharova, according to Agerpres.

After the telephone conversation carried on Monday afternoon with President Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin said that Moscow is ready to collaborate with Ukraine at a memorandum on a future peace agreement and that the efforts to end the Ukraine are on the “right road.”

Putin said that the discussions on this memorandum will focus on the principles of a solution (conflict), as well as on the calendar and defining a possible cessation of fire.

“Of course, we do not count on the rationality of Bankova (the headquarters of the Ukrainian Presidency), but we would like to believe that at least the instinct of preserving the states of the state will prevail there, and that would force him to adopt a constructive attitude,” Maria Zaharova said in a press conference.

“Now the ball is in the land of Kiev,” she said, adding that after Putin proposed direct peace discussions with Ukraine, Ukraine's European allies tried to prevent the resumption of direct dialogue, but that Europeans have finally failed.

Zaharova insisted that the thesis promoted by Ukraine and its Western allies regarding the impossibility of negotiations in the conditions of continuing the struggles “does not resist any criticism”.

The spokesman for the Russian MAE said that the ultraliberals in the West are not interested in obtaining peace, but by obtaining, at any price, a break for the Ukrainian armed forces and to continue with Russia.

Regarding the new sanctions announced by the EU, Zaharova said that Russia will never give up to anyone's ultimatums, adding that it is clear that Europe wants to renovate Ukraine to continue the war.

What are the “deep causes” of the “crisis” in Ukraine that Russia insists to cease the war

At the same time, Maria Zaharova said that in the discussion held on Monday with Donald Trump, President Putin stressed “Moscow's desire to achieve a definitive and fair resolution of the crisis”, and “the basis must be the understanding that it is impossible to achieve this objective without eliminating its deep causes”.

Moscow qualifies as the “deep causes” of the conflict in Ukraine the extension of NATO to the east, the aspirations of Ukraine to join the North Atlantic and EU alliance and the political system that appeared in Ukraine after the 2014 Maidan revolt, which led to the removal of Pro-Rus Viktor Janukovici (who ran to Moscow) Pro-Western, notes the BBC in Russian.

However, as some observers quoted by the mentioned radio station notice, the issue of NATO expansion to the East does not belong to Kiev's competence, but to that of the North Atlantic and especially the US alliance, the country with which Russia really wants to discuss.

A former Russian diplomat notes the meteahna of Europe to “fall to an understanding” with the aggressor

“The last steps of Russian diplomacy only confirm the course followed by Vladimir Putin from the beginning of the war in Ukraine. This is the path of destroying Ukrainian statehood by the gross force, imposing at the same time a new geopolitical reality-the division of the world into spheres of influence,” writes the Russian diplomat Boris. Times.

Putin seeks to become the architect of a new world order, in which the post-Soviet space and the Eastern European countries reach the sphere of influence of Russia and move on to this objective, considers the former diplomat.

In December 2021, Moscow issued a NATO ultimatum on returning to the 1997 borders. This document opened the Kremlin's intentions, he recalls.

Putin is consistent, says Bondarev, who a few days after Russia's invasion in Ukraine in February 2022 has resigned from Russia's representative to the UN bodies in Geneva and remained in the West. “He knows what he wants, he imagines his” victory “parameters and acts systematically to obtain it. This contrasts strongly with the behavior of Western leaders, who have not been able to develop a common resistance strategy for three years. They continue to ignore the Kremlin's steps and statements, considering them, it reaches an agreement with him. “

In this sense, the former Russian diplomat believes that it is a meteah of Europe to “fall to an understanding” with the aggressor, at the same time appreciating that the resumption of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations is only a trap for Kiev and the West.