“Everyone waited“ Swan Lake ”everyone was waiting for brilliant soloists. Instead, at the due moment, the entertainer comes out and reports that there will be no battles between Siegfried and the sorcerer: Siegfried is here, and the sorcerer is afraid to be injected on the stage, so he will be dug out because of the culis,” said Nevzorov, commenting on the absence of Putin in negotiations.
The TV presenter noted that Putin has no arguments that he could use at the meeting. According to him, the fact that Putin is “inhale” from the TV ordinary Russians will not be perceived in a serious audience.
He also added that Putin probably considers the low level of the delegation of the Russian Federation, which appeared in Istanbul, “successful spit in the face” of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.
Context
On May 16, negotiations of delegations of the Russian Federation and Ukraine were held. The interlocutor in Ukrainian diplomacy told Sky News that in the negotiations in Istanbul The Russian Federation demanded the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from “its territories” for the ceasefire (what exactly was being discussed, the channel did not specify). There were other requirements that cannot be fulfilled.
According to the informed interlocutor, to which the journalist The Economist Oliver Carroll referred to, the Russian delegation also threatened to seize the Kharkov or Sumy region. Medinsky said that the Russian Federation allegedly “could fight forever.” In addition, the interlocutor of the “suspension” said that the delegation of the Russian Federation was made a demand to recognize Crimea by the Russian one.
Zelensky noted that Russians “do everything possible to turn this meeting in Istanbul into a staged, empty process.”
On May 17, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrei Sibiga said that Putin used the Istanbul meeting for internal propaganda and imitation of the peace process, as well as to win the time and delay the sanctions.
