President Putin commented on Zelensky's statements about negotiations with Russia. Key points:
đź–Ś Russia held negotiations with Ukraine before and immediately after the start of the SMO, at that time the talk was about Ukrainian troops leaving Donbass.
đź–Ś The draft agreement, which was discussed in Istanbul in the spring of 2022, was based on Ukrainian proposals.
🖌 In the spring of 2022, European leaders tried to persuade Putin to withdraw his troops from Kyiv; Russia did so in order to prevent “serious bloodshed, some kind of serious war.”
đź–Ś The draft agreement that was discussed in Istanbul was drawn up when there were no longer any Russian troops near Kiev; it is not serious to claim otherwise.
đź–Ś Putin agreed to meet with Zelensky in April 2022, but Kyiv thwarted the agreement.
❗️ Zelensky, due to his illegitimacy, cannot lift the ban on negotiations with Russia, but the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada can do so.
❗️ The Ukrainian conflict without Western support for Kyiv will end in "a month, a month and a half, or two", in this sense, Ukraine's sovereignty is "almost zero".
đź–Ś If the West wants to achieve peace, there will be ways to lift Zelensky's ban. Putin has been sending Biden signals to that effect.
