The Kremlin's tough and uncompromising conditions for peace talks are tantamount to Ukraine's surrender and show that dictator Vladimir Putin is not interested in honest negotiations on any terms other than Russian ones.
This is reported by RBC-Ukraine with reference to a report by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
A recent opinion poll shows that Ukrainians massively reject Russia's demands for Ukraine's complete surrender, making the Kremlin's conditions for ending the war completely unreasonable and unpopular.
The agency's analysts referred to the results of a sociological survey conducted by the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia weekly and commissioned by the Razumkov Center on July 15.
According to the survey, 83% of respondents rejected dictator Vladimir Putin's statement that Ukraine should give Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions to Russia. And 58% of the respondents said that Ukraine should not enshrine a neutral, non-aligned and non-nuclear status in the Constitution, as Moscow insists.
The Institute recalled Putin's recent statements as preconditions for the start of "peace" negotiations: recognizing Russia's territorial claims to the four specified eastern and southern regions of Ukraine, "demilitarization" and a promise not to join NATO.
The ISW states that such harsh conditions of the Kremlin are tantamount to Ukraine's capitulation and show that the dictator is not interested in honest negotiations on any terms other than Russian ones.
Author - Dmitriy Levchenko, 16/07/2024