Ukraine should “think” about withdrawing its troops from the east and south of the countryas requested by the Russian president Vladimir Putinfor start peace talksas its military situation on the ground worsens, the Kremlin declared this Sunday.
“The current dynamics of the situation on the front clearly shows us that it continues to get worse for Ukrainians,” the Kremlin spokesman said. Dmitry Peskovwhile the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyand world leaders They were meeting in Switzerland to discuss how to end the conflict.
“A politician who puts his country’s interests ahead of his own and his masters is likely to reflect on such a proposal,” Peskov said.
On the eve of the summit, Putin had demanded Ukraine’s surrender before any negotiation. Peskov stated this Sunday that it was not an “ultimatum”, but “a peace initiative that takes into account the realities on the ground.”
For its part, Zelensky yesterday he rejected the “ultimatum” of the Russian president, comparing it to the messages of the German dictator Adolf Hitler during world war II.
“It is about the rebirth of Nazism. “It is a new wave of this Russian Nazism,” said the Ukrainian president. “Everything that Putin says, about giving them part of our territories that they have occupied and even not, (…) that he will stop and that the conflict will not freeze, are the same messages that Hitler used.”.
Zelensky He added that Putin’s territorial aspirations are nothing more than a “historical slander” and warns that this “new wave of russian nazism” will spread everywhere if it is not stopped.
Ukraine’s Western allies also repudiated Moscow’s conditions for ending the war now in its third year.
At the summit that is being held in Swissleaders and senior officials from more than 90 countries are meeting to try to end the largest conflict in Europe since World War II.
On Saturday, on the first day of the summit, Zelensky He stated that he wants to draw a peace proposal with the international communitywhich he would later present to Moscow.
“We must decide together what a just peace means for the world and how it can be achieved in a lasting way”he declared in his opening speech.
The discussions in Switzerland, in which neither Russia neither Chinaare based on the agreed points of the peace plan presented by Zelensky at the end of 2022, and in UN resolutions about the Russian invasion.
On Sunday the summit continued with three working groups: nuclear security, humanitarian affairs, food security and freedom of navigation in the Black Sea.
The meeting is celebrated in a delicate moment for Ukraine on the battlefield, where Russian forces are larger and better equipped.
Shortly after Peskov’s statements, the Russian Defense Ministry announced this Sunday that its troops had captured the town of Zagrinein the region of Zaporozhye (in the south), continuing their advance on the front line.
