from Sputnik News:
President Vladimir Putin reiterated Russia’s conditions for an end to the Ukraine conflict during an address at the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on June 14. However, the offer was rejected by the Kiev regime almost as soon as it was extended.
Kiev should agree to the preconditions for peace talks laid out by Russian President Vladimir Putin, otherwise its position both in the combat zone and at the negotiating table will only get much worse, Persio Gloria de Paula, an expert at the Naval War College in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, told Sputnik.
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“One should bear in mind that Ukraine is suffering both hardware and personnel losses. For the first, it relies on its patrons in the West, while to replenish the second it will need to push through increasingly stringent mobilization and lower the conscription age,” he remarked. At the same time, the Russian proposal poses a challenge to Kiev and its sponsors on the eve of the so-called peace summit in Switzerland.
“This calls into question the goals and effectiveness of a summit which is not attended by all the sides involved,” Persio Gloria de Paula said.
Ex-Pentagon analyst: Ukraine should heed Putin’s offer to avoid new losses
“I think [US President Joe] Biden will resist it,” Michael Maloof, a former senior security policy analyst in the Office of the US Secretary of Defense, tells Sputnik, commenting on Moscow’s new peace… pic.twitter.com/qRExkZu9mh
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Putin’s Offer is ‘Golden Opportunity’
The conditions laid out by President Putin to resolve the Ukraine conflict are “a golden opportunity both for Kiev and the European countries to begin negotiations,” Iranian political scientist Emad Abshenas told Sputnik.
“Of course, as expected, Russia insists on its key demands,” he noted, including a neutral, non-nuclear status for Ukraine, “as well as guarantees of independence, rights, freedoms and interests of the Russian-speaking population of the country.”
He singled out Putin’s remarks that these fundamental parameters along with Ukraine’s demilitarization and de-Nazification were broadly agreed on during the Istanbul negotiations in 2022. However, on Western countries’ orders, Kiev ultimately rejected these conditions, the expert said.
