President Putin wants to end the Ukraine conflict 0
(Dan Tri) – American journalist Tucker Carlson said Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to take diplomatic measures to end the war in Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (Photo: Reuters).
`Mr. Putin wants to end this war. He will not be more open to negotiations if this war lasts longer,` American journalist Tucker Carlson Carlson said at a conference in Dubai on February 12.
According to Mr. Carlson, the West needs to note that `Russia’s industrial capacity is much stronger than we think` and that Moscow is having a much easier time producing weapons and ammunition than it is.
`The leaders of any country on the planet, except the United States during the unipolar era, were forced to compromise due to the nature of their work. That is diplomacy,` Mr. Carlson told the crowd.
Mr. Putin is doing diplomatic work like everyone else, but `his stance is becoming tougher,` according to the American journalist.
In an interview with journalist Tucker Carlson early last week, President Putin said Russia always supports a negotiated and diplomatic solution to the crisis in Ukraine, the important thing is that Kiev and its Western partners accept it.
`We have prepared an important document (during the peace talks in Türkiye in March 2022) signed by the head of the Ukrainian negotiating team… We are ready to sign and the conflict is probably over.` ended a long time ago. However, then British Prime Minister Boris Johnson came and convinced Ukraine to cancel the agreement,` Mr. Putin said.
The Kremlin owner said that Ukraine `made a mistake` and `missed the opportunity to end the conflict.
President Putin signaled that Russia is ready to return to the negotiation format as in Türkiye, meaning that Ukraine must meet conditions such as ensuring military non-alignment, limiting the size of the army, accepting Crimea and Donbass are part of Russia.
First Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council Rashid Nurgaliyev stated on February 12 that Russia has never opposed the negotiation process, but now it cannot take place due to the Ukrainian government’s position.
`Today, voices in favor of a peaceful political solution in Ukraine, even at the cost of losing part of its territory, are becoming louder and louder. Russia has never been opposed to resuming the negotiation process
He pointed out that `the conflict has never cooled down, on the contrary, before the start of the special military operation, the conflict escalated even more.`
In an interview with Russian journalist Pavel Zarubin published on February 11, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that if Russia and Ukraine really return to negotiations, the exchanges will no longer be the same as previous negotiations.
`If we had started similar negotiations, there would now be a completely different reality. And this new reality, no matter how painful it is for the Kiev authorities, must be recognized,` the spokesperson said.
Mr. Peskov did not say specifically, but RT said he seemed to be referring to Russia’s announcement to annex four Ukrainian provinces, Zaporozhia, Kherson, Donetsk and Lugansk, by the end of 2022.
