Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that he is willing to hold talks with kyiv if Ukraine requests them. A proposal to be taken with a pinch of salt.
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A month after Ukraine launched an offensive in Russia’s Kursk region, the Kremlin says it is open to talks if kyiv requests them. “If there is a desire to negotiate, we will not refuse”said Vladimir Putin on Thursday, September 5, at an economic forum in Vladivostok. An unexpected statement from the Russian president, which should be taken with a pinch of salt.
This is not the first time that Vladimir Putin has proposed negotiations with Ukraine, only to have nothing happen. “We never refused” discussions, even assures the Russian president. But behind this “outstretched hand” Often hidden are conditions that are unimaginable for Ukrainians.
In his statement, Vladimir Putin rightly specifies that if discussions were opened, it would be “on the basis of the documents that were agreed and initialed in Istanbul.” He is referring here to the Istanbul talks that took place at the beginning of the war. They had failed “because of the Westerners”the Russians say. “Because Russia imposed unacceptable conditions,” denounced the Ukrainians for their part. So nothing seems to have changed.
