2023-05-27 17:46:00
Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin among the seven demands enumerated the cessation of hostilities by Ukrainian forces and the supply of Western weapons. According to the Russian diplomat, the fulfillment of the other five requirements is necessary for “achieving a general, just and lasting peace”. Ukraine should therefore return to a neutral position outside the blocs, i.e. renounce joining NATO and the EU, recognize “new territorial realitiesarising as a result of the right of peoples to self-determination” (that is, to recognize the annexation of their territory in Crimea and in the east and south of the country by Russia – note by ČTK), to protect the rights of Russian-speaking citizens and national minorities, to establish Russian as the state language and to observe basic human rights, including freedom religious belief.
The last demand probably means that the Ukrainian state should stop opposing the Orthodox Church, which until recently was subject to the Moscow Patriarchate. In addition, the Orthodox Church connected to the Patriarchate of Constantinople also operates in Ukraine.
“Russian President Vladimir Putin previously said that Moscow does not oppose Ukraine’s EU membership. Earlier, there was not even a demand to make Russian the state language,” poznamenal list Kommersant.
The seven Russian demands “confirm the legal and factual incompetence of the Russian leadership,” Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the head of the Ukrainian presidential office, said on Twitter and responded by listing the Ukrainians’ conditions. These include the withdrawal of all Russian troops from Ukrainian territory, the definitive recognition of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the sovereignty of the post-Soviet republics, the extradition of war criminals and war builders, the creation of a demilitarized buffer zone on Russian territory, a reduction in the number of offensive weapons, the holding of an international conference that would organize control over Russia’s nuclear arsenal, the legal anchoring of reparations, including the voluntary surrender of Russian property seized in third countries in favor of Ukraine.
Peace talks with Russia, which began shortly after the invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine last February, were ended by Ukraine after the spring withdrawal of Russian troops from Kiev, which also meant the disclosure of war crimes in the newly liberated cities and villages. Kiev has vowed not to negotiate with Russia as long as Vladimir Putin is at its head. It was on his orders that Russian troops invaded the neighboring country, unleashing the bloodiest conflict in Europe since World War II.
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