Ukraine will lose even more territory if it refuses the conditions of Moscow, threatens Russia's chief negotiator

The head of the Russian delegation at the peace discussions with Kiev, Vladimir Medinski, warned-in an interview for Wall Street Journal (WSJ)-that if Ukraine does not accept Russia's conditions for the cessation of the war, Kiev will lose even more territory, the agencies of Reuters and Agerpres report on Wednesday.

“It is impossible to take a long war with Russia,” said Medinski, counselor of Russian President Vladimir Putin, evoking the 21-year-old War with Russia with Sweden from the eighteenth century as proof that the country wins in prolonged struggles.

“We want peace,” says Putin's counselor, this is in the conditions in which the authors of the inscriptions in which the word peace is present are arrested in Russia. Three days ago, a resident of Moscow was detained at St. Petersburg under the suspicion that he had inscribed the Pacifist slogan “Peace of the world” in public places in the city of Neva, according to the Russian Antenna of Deutsche Welle. The man risks up to three years in prison for execution for “acts of vandalism”. The slogan “peace of the world” was among the most widespread in the Soviet period, especially at the May 1 and 7 demonstrations.

“But if Ukraine continues to be led by the national interests of others, then we will simply be forced to answer,” says Medinski, who compared the Ukraine war with a conflict between a bigger and smaller brother.

Kiev should no longer look at the West, but accept Moscow's offer, he said.

“Brother” Cain

The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has already reacted to Medinski's statement about the conflict “between the brothers”. The spokesman of the Ukrainian MAE, Gheorghi Tihii, said that if the Russian Federation is a “brother”, then it is only Cain, who “already holds the stone”.

In this context, some Ukrainian average notes that at the same time with the resumption of negotiations between Moscow and Kiev, after a three -year break, Russia has launched a new offensive operation in Ukraine. The Russian troops intensified their attacks in the Donetk, Sumî and Kharkov directions, approached the Dnipropetrovsk region and also carry out massive attacks on Ukrainian cities.

Putin does not intend to put an end to the war, hoping that by the end of the year, the army will be able to pierce the Ukrainian defense and completely occupy the regions Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporojie and Herson, which he annexed in September 2022, but which he does not yet control the whole, in May, the Agency has reported in May.

Also, Vladimir Putin ordered to create a “security buffer zone” along the Russian-Ukrainian border-on the territory of the Kharkov and Sumî regions (northeast Ukraine).

In addition to the transfer of the four annexed Ukrainian regions plus Crimea, Moscow asks Ukraine to give up NATO accession, to accept a limitation of its armed forces and to put an end to mobilization, among others.