The possibility of direct conversations between Russia and Ukraine to end the war is once at the table after the week or back and diplomatic love.
President Vladimir Putin has proposed the resumption of negotiations with Ukraine in Istanbul on Thursday, three years after the two parties made failed conversations there in the first weeks of the invasion.
The proposal occurred in response to a call backed by the West for a high 30 -day fire that Moscow has not yet accepted.
Kremlin Yury Ushakov Assistant saying On Sunday that the new conversations in Istanbul must take into account the results of the 2022 Istanbul negotiations, but also reflect the current situation “on the ground.”
This is what you should know before Thursday:
kyiv’s position in conversations
Ukraine and his allies urged Moscow to accept a high and unconditional fire of 30 days from Monday. While the Kremlin has not responded to the proposal of Alto El Fuego, kyiv said that Russia had fired around 100 drones during the night on Monday.
President Volodymyr Zensky then increased the bets saying that “he would wait for Putin in Türkiye on Thursday. Personally.”
“We have absolutely no problem in negotiations: we are ready for any format”, Zenskyy saying Sunday.
The claim marks a change in the previous position of Zensky. In the fall of 2022, he had signed An effective decree that prohibits negotiations with Putin.
“It is clear that this is impossible with the current Russian president. He does not understand dignity or honesty. That is why we are open to dialogue with Russia, but only with a different Russian president,” the Ukrainian leader saying In 2022.
Moscow conditions
Putin proposes the direct conversations in Istanbul in a statement of mid night on Saturday that took place hours after kyiv and the leaders of France, Germany, Great Britain and Poland asked Moscow to accept an unconditional face of 30 days or face.
Putin said he was “committed to serious negotiations with Ukraine” and that he wanted to talk about “eliminating the fundamental causes of the conflict and establishing a lasting peace.” He said that Moscow never rejected the dialogue with kyiv and that the Ukrainian side had stopped negotiations in Istanbul in March 2022.
Н also accused Western sponsors of Ukraine of wanting to “continue the war with Russia” and criticized the “European ultimatum” and “anti -ruse rhetoric.”
What was on the table in Istanbul in 2022?
Russian and Ukrainian negotiators made several rounds of direct conversations in Istanbul in the first week of the war in 2022, but the conversations They fell for For May.
In the three years since Moscow invaded, tens of thousands have killed and millions forced to flee their homes. The Russian Army controls around a fifth of the country, including the Crimean Peninsula, annexed in 2014.
The 2022 peace conversation process led to the launch of a joint statement, but ended without an agreement.
Under the draft of 2022 Istanbul Communique, which Reuters revisedUkraine would accept permanent neutrality in exchange for international security guarantees of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, as well as other nations, including Belarus, Canada, Germany, Israel, Poland and Turkey.
Ukraine provisionally agreed to non -nuclear neutrality and resigned from NATO membership in exchange for a security guarantee. That guarantee would force the United States and its allies to fight Russia directly if Russia invaded Ukraine again, Reuters reported.
According to Reuters, the draft of 2022 also included provisions to relieve the possible adhesion of Ukraine to the EU, while Russia sought restrictions on the military capacities of Ukraine and the repeal of the legislation that considered Russian discriminatory.
Why the Istanbul 2022 conversations collapsed
In May 2022, Ukraine said that negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow had been suspended Because “Russia still does not understand the contees of war.” In June 2022, Russia confirm That “all stagnant” after Moscow presented a proposal draft in April and Ukraine did not respond.
The discovery of mass murders of civilians in the suburb of kyiv de Bucha at the beginning of April 2022, widely attributed to the Russian forces but Denied By Moscow as a “provocation”, a turning point was seen that derailed the Conversations of Istanbul, causing additional negotiations to be unacceptable policies for the Ukrainian side.
In the November 2023 interview, David Arakhamia, who led the Ukrainian delegation in the Peace Conversations of 2022, say That then British prime minister, Boris Johnson, had advised kyiv not to continue negotiations, instead of suggesting that Ukraine should “continue fighting.”
According to Arakhamia, Ukrainian officials also worried that Russia could not defend an agreement and was reluctant to pursue constitutional changes that would compromise the country’s ambition to join NATO, a Zensky statement later. dismissed.
Zensky saying This year, the 2022 conversations broke due to the “ultimatum” of Russia, including a demand for their resignation And a reduction in the Ukraine Army to 50,000 troops.
Russia, in turn saying In 2022, Ukraine presented conditions for negotiations with Moscow that were “unrealistic and inappropriate.”
AFP contributed reports.
