“The number of trashes, the number of threats, cynicism and immoral statements. It was almost a continuous stream. You have already heard about the long-long-extract excursions, that today we demand four areas, tomorrow we will demand eight or six … that here among the members of the delegation, some members of the delegation may lose more relatives,” he said.
The Ukrainian diplomat noted that once the head of the Russian delegation, the assistant to the illegitimate president of the aggressor country of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin Vladimir Medinsky, said that the war, in fact, was when “Russians kill Russians with certain nuances.”
“That is, you see, in fact, that side denies your existence as a nation. They tell you in the face, you are not Ukrainian, you are Russian, we are just killing you, just Russians kill the Russians. It hurts us that we,“ Russians ”kill the Russians. That is, knowing the deep level of the patrioticity of Ukrainians, national consciousness, the battle people are sitting there, who were at the front, people who have lost their relatives, and you say to them: “Well, we are just Russians, they kill them, with the nuances.” Is this a manifestation of constructivism or is it a desire to hit the patient, so that someone there is a sag with all the consequences? This is a very difficult situation, ”Kislitsa explained.
He emphasized that in negotiations with the Russian delegation, the Ukrainians did not achieve the main result, the ceasefire.
“But let's see what an alternative could be. The alternative could be such that we succumbed to provocations, we committed a demarche, we resorted to some emotional hype, we left negotiations. And then it would be a boomerang against us,” Kislitsa said.
Context
On May 16, negotiations of delegations of the Russian Federation and Ukraine were held, the Russian delegation was headed by Medinsky. The interlocutor in Ukrainian diplomacy told Sky News that in the negotiations in Istanbul The Russian Federation demanded the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the “its territories” for the ceasefire (which exactly was mentioned, the channel did not specify). There were other requirements that cannot be fulfilled.
According to the informed interlocutor, who was referred to by the journalist The Economist Oliver Carroll, the Russian delegation also threatened to seize the Kharkov or Sumy region. Medinsky said that the Russian Federation seemed to 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.
