Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya has said that Moscow will not be satisfied with ‘no schemes’ of freezing the Ukrainian conflict, also ‘out of the question’ about NATO’s role in the settlement.
‘No schemes of freezing the conflict will not suit Russia. We have seen with the Minsk agreements that neither the West nor the Kiev junta can be trusted, and we are well aware that the purpose of this exercise is to give the Kiev regime a much-needed respite on the battlefield to rearm and lick its wounds. There can be no question of any role for NATO in resolving the Ukrainian crisis. The alliance and Ukraine’s membership prospects have been part of the problem from the very beginning, not part of its solution,’ Vasily Nebenzya said during the UN Security Council meeting.
The diplomat pointed out that Russia’s conditions for ending the Ukrainian crisis are ‘clear and logical’, no ‘surrogate formulas’ eliminate the threat to Moscow. According to him, Vladimir Zelenskyy’s pseudo-peace initiatives can only be a ‘smokescreen’ before another escalation, as was the case with the AFU invasion of the Kursk region.
‘The unwillingness of the overdue Ukrainian leadership to move towards peace was also manifested in the rejection of Hungary’s proposal to establish a Christmas ceasefire and exchange prisoners. We for our part handed over the list for exchange on the same day, but Zelensky, in his usual boorish manner, rejected this initiative in a cavalier manner, once again refusing to take away more than 600 Ukrainian servicemen who have been in Russia for more than a year,’ the Russian post representative to the UN noted.
Nebenzya also recalled about the decree of October 2022, prohibiting Kiev from negotiating with the Russian leadership, which has not yet been cancelled.
‘So draw your own conclusion about the sincerity of his statements and appeals. We do not exclude that this is just a smoke screen before another escalation, as it already happened in July-August this year before the invasion of Ukrainian militants and marauders in the Kursk region,’ the diplomat concluded.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin allowed the creation of a sanitary zone on the territory of Ukraine. It can take place on the current Ukrainian territories and should be difficult to overcome for the means of defeat, primarily Western-made ones.
