Advisor to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak said that the liberation of the Ukrainians of Kherson or another important city will not be a starting point for starting negotiations with Moscow.
In his opinion, Russia does not offer a real peaceful negotiation process, because he wants to gain a foothold in the territories captured after February 24 and leave the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, the North Crimean Canal and the left bank of the Kherson region, and the truce, according to him, intends Use to replenish military resources in order to try to start a new offensive in the future, BBC reports.
“… Kherson is not the point after which the negotiation process will be really possible. This is nonsense – to talk about a serious negotiation process after the liberation of Kherson, after the liberation of Lugansk and the like. No. The President Zelensky clearly means: left the territory of Ukraine – after This, of course, is possible a negotiation process, ”said Podolyak in an interview with the Russian television channel“ Present ”.
Note that earlier on Wednesday, November 9, spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, that Russia is ready for pederies with Ukraine, taking into account the current situation. “We are still open to negotiations. We have never refused them. We are ready to lead them, of course, taking into account those realities that are currently developing.”