Moscow also left him until the eleventh hour to provide any detail on who would be in his delegation. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov, not included either, it was clear that it would not be an autonomous team. Another signal of this was the man chosen to direct the delegation, the presidential aid Vladimir Medinsky, who served as Minister of Culture Arch-Patriotic from 2012 to 2020 and who supervised the recent redrawing of official textbooks of the History School to advance the Morne Armament of the Kremlin of historical memory.
Everything Putin did by sending a delegation was to offer the strict diplomatics to prolong the dance. As Zelenskyy noted, apart from its own presence, Ukraine was represented by a high -level delegation “ready to make all the decisions that could lead to a just awaited peace”, adding: “I am here. I think it’s a very clear message. ”
Deep causes
So, here, once again, the Kremlin is at a standstill – a tactic that it has used repeatedly when it participates in negotiations, it has little interest in concluding other than its own terms. Condition n ° 1: He does not want to cease-fire before he obtains concessions which would mean the end of democratic Ukraine.
It is yet another sign that a real breakthrough is a distant perspective. The Kremlin firmly sticks to its maximalist objectives under the guise of wanting a solution to the “deep causes” of the war – the shortcut of the Kremlin to avoid democracy in Ukraine and thwart the country’s political trajectory towards NATO. The Pseudo-Historien Medinsky, the head of the delegation, will undoubtedly make Turkey on the “deep causes”.
The Trump camp has shown so far that it is ready to accompany Putin. The Russian leader has deliberately undertaken to change the sequencing of negotiations, so a cease-fire follows an agreement which he is satisfied rather than the reverse. In doing so, he hopes that he is carrying the United States or the force to go completely away – like the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, suggested it is possible.
The Russian leader and his best collaborators have categorically described their red lines for a peace agreement for months – conditions which, in fact, would tear the state of Ukraine in tatters. They want guarantees that Ukraine will never join NATO, that it will remain geopolitically neutral and unable to command its own fate and with serious limitations on arms. Moscow also wants the Crimea and the Eastern oven Obasts They claim that within the framework of the Russian Federation to be internationally recognized as such.
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