“Negotiations of Russia and Ukraine can only be conducted if Kyiv accepts the conditions of Moscow.” This was stated by the chairman of the Federation Council of Russia Valentina Matvienko.
She emphasized that if the West wanted, “he would have put Kyiv at the negotiating table and forced them to reach peace agreements.”
“They had completely different goals, other objectives. And today it is already obvious. Nevertheless, Russia did not get away from negotiations, we started negotiations with Ukraine. Again, Belarus and President Lukashenko personally played a huge role. Negotiations, negotiations. As you know, I was conducted in the Gomel region. And a lot had to be done by Belarus to create conditions for such negotiations. We are grateful to Belarus for this, we are grateful to the President of Belarus for his such clear, intelligible position that does not change depending on certain winds “, – said Matvienko.
According to her, negotiations on realistic conditions, and the conditions of Russia are known.
“We also publicly stated them. These are the conditions that are declared for the purpose of a special military operation, and, of course, Russia will not conduct negotiations on any other conditions, because it was Ukraine who crossed the red line,” Matvienko said in The air of the CTV TV channel.