Lavrov: Adhere to Moscow's Demands, or Issue Will Be Decided by Russian Army
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Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s top diplomat, said Monday that Ukraine will recognize and adhere to the Kremlin’s demands or the issue will be decided by the Russian army, which has called for a partial mobilization and is training hundreds of thousands of troops for another offensive.
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Lavrov spoke to the Tass News Agency and said Russia’s proposal’s are well known to “the enemy.” Russia wants total demilitarization and denazification of the territories controlled by the [Ukrainian] regime, the “elimination of threats to Russia's security emanating from there, including our new lands.”
“The point is simple: Fulfill them for your own good. Otherwise, the issue will be decided by the Russian army,” he said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an interview that aired on Christmas Russia and said he is willing to negotiate for a peaceful resolution in the Ukraine War, which was swiftly rejected by Kyiv, which has been the target of massive bombing campaigns to take out its power infrastructure.
“We are ready to negotiate with everyone involved about acceptable solutions, but that is up to them - we are not the ones refusing to negotiate, they are,” Putin said.
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, displayed how Ukraine has no interest in negotiating. He tweeted that Putin “needs to come back to reality.” It is “obvious” that Russia “doesn’t want negotiations, but tries to avoid responsibility.”
The New York Times reported that a Ukrainian drone strike killed three Russians at a base inside Russia, and Kyiv is “striking more boldly at targets deep in Russian territory because Kyiv has assessed that Moscow’s military is fighting at the limits of its conventional capabilities.”
The BBC noted that the Ukrainian military did not “officially admit to the latest attack, but air force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat said the explosions were the result of what Russia was doing on Ukrainian soil.”
The Biden administration made it clear last week that it does not want peace negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow, thus asking the question of who is at war with Russia, and is this further proof that it is not Zelensky’s Ukraine government calling the shots?
When Zelesnky was asked last week, what a “just peace” would look like, he said his peace would mean “no compromises as to sovereignty, freedom, and territorial integrity of my country, the payback for all the damages inflicted by Russian aggression. There can’t be any just peace in the war that was imposed on us by these … inhumans, I would say.”