Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that Ukraine is facing a very difficult political period and the country is likely to have to conduct negotiations with Russia.
He vowed to do everything he could to resist efforts to force the country to seek a diplomatic solution to the ongoing conflict.
I am warning everyone, this is going to be a very difficult political period. these [tárgyalásokat követelő] Voices are rising. We will do everything within the framework of international and criminal law to silence these voices.” Kuleba said on Saturday, according to Ukrainian media.
Kiev has repeatedly rejected the possibility of negotiations with Russia, in fact, President Volodymyr Zelensky passed a separate law last fall specifically banning negotiations. On the other hand, Moscow has repeatedly expressed its desire to engage in meaningful negotiations in order to resolve the conflict that has been going on for a year and a half.
Russian Senator Sergei Chuikov, who represents Crimea in the Federal Council, ridiculed Kuleba’s position on the coming fall. He said that diplomats and the Ukrainian leadership as a whole are already concerned about the depletion of Western aid.
He believes the fall will be a difficult test for Ukraine in terms of calls for talks since he and the Kiev elite are held hostage by easy money from the West. Chuikov told the Russian media.
“The longer the battles last, the more they win, the more they demand from the US and the EU. However, the Ukrainian people will not see most of the money as the aid is plundered” asked the senator.
During the ongoing conflict, the West has provided Ukraine with significant military and financial aid, and the United States alone has provided about $100 billion. Moscow has repeatedly called on Kiev’s Western supporters to stop “pumping” weapons into Ukraine, arguing that this will only prolong hostilities, not change their outcome.
