The Wall Street Journal reports that President Zelensky may announce his proposal in February.
Washington DC, December 22,(RT)Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia viewed previous statements by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky about possible peace talks as disconnected from reality. He was asked on Friday to comment on media reports of a new peace plan being drawn up by the presidential office.
“We are not aware of this,” an official told reporters during a briefing. All of this does not take into account the realities of the field and cannot be ignored.”
The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that the Ukrainian government may submit a new peace proposal in his February. The Ukrainian leadership wants to achieve some battlefield victories first, to strengthen its position, the newspaper’s sources in the governments of the US and Ukraine claimed.
Kiev is mulling peace plan, WSJ reports
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Zelensky last month made public what he termed a peace plan for his nation during a speech to the G20 leaders, who were meeting in Indonesia. It involved full withdrawal of Russian troops from all territories that Kiev considers under its sovereignty.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at the time that the terms were “unrealistic and inadequate” and that Zelensky’s speech was full of “militant, Russophobic and aggressive rhetoric.”
Zelensky was asked about a “just peace” ending the conflict, during a press conference in Washington that he held this week alongside US President Joe Biden. He replied that he didn’t know what that term meant, before declaring that no amount of reparations would compensate for the losses of some Ukrainians, who want revenge on “Inhumans.”
Biden intervened to declare that both he and Zelensky ultimately wanted peace. US policy cites the strategic defeat of Russia as the main goal of the crisis.
Russia and Ukraine were nearing a ceasefire agreement in early April. However, Kyiv’s Western supporters reportedly refused to support the deal, which brought Kyiv to the negotiating table. Moscow said the US and its allies had derailed the talks so that they could do more damage to Russia without considering Ukraine’s interests.
