Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the Russian President, has stated that Vladimir Putin remains open to negotiations about Ukraine, but neither German Chancellor Olaf Scholz nor French President Emmanuel Macron, with whom the Kremlin wants to be in touch, are contacting Russia at the moment at all.
Source: Peskov's interview with the Izvestiya news outlet
Quote from Peskov: "We have heard a lot of statements from Scholz and Macron, who said they would continue to speak with Putin in order to look for some ways out of the situation. However, there have been no initiatives recently."
Details: Peskov has recalled that Macron declared his readiness to call Putin five or six times, but the Kremlin has not received any requests for such a conversation. "Everybody has to know this: there were no requests or considerations of possible time frames for such a conversation," Peskov added.
Nevertheless, the Russian President's press secretary has said that Putin remains open to "any contacts that will help Russia achieve its own goals through various means".
"Mainly peaceful ones, at the negotiation table, but when that is not possible, with military ways, as we see now," he explained.
In the middle of February 2023, Macron stated that he supported Russia’s defeat in the war in Ukraine while also warning against an aspiration to "destroy" Moscow, which, according to Macron, would never be Paris' position.
On 26 February 2023, Olaf Scholz criticised China's "peace plan" to settle Russia's invasion of Ukraine, as the document does not mention the withdrawal of the Russian army.
Peskov claimed that Moscow studies the "peaceful plan" of China but so far sees no reasons to go "in a peaceful direction".
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Amichateur on February 28th, 2023 at 11:40 UTC »
Putin: "If you want to talk to me you must first accept that the occupied areas are not to be negotiated - that's a precondition."
Macron , Scholz: " "
Putin: complains nobody is talking to him...
FM-101 on February 28th, 2023 at 10:39 UTC »
Maybe because there is nothing to talk about.
People have been trying the diplomatic route for a year now and they still keep going on about exterminating Ukraine and nuking the west.
There is also the fact that making any kind if deals with russia is dangerous. They never honor any of their agreements. I'm sure people remember how russia opened fire on the civilian evacuation corridor they negotiated. And how Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons in the 90s because russia signed an agreement to not attack Ukraine. Just to mention a few.
Contacting russia is honestly pointless.
yolkadot on February 28th, 2023 at 10:13 UTC »
I don’t understand why my friends stopped liking my posts, after I committed thousands of war crimes…