Russia will not be satisfied with the freezing of the conflict in Ukraine, nor with the participation of the North Atlantic Alliance in the settlement.
This was stated by the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, at a meeting of the UN Security Council.
The diplomat’s statement is quoted by MIA “Russia Today” .
What Nebenzya said about freezing the conflict in Ukraine
The Russian Permanent Representative to the UN categorically rejected any proposals to freeze the conflict.
No schemes for freezing the conflict will suit Russia, Nebenzya stated.
According to him, Russia has learned from the example of the Minsk agreements that Kyiv and the West cannot be trusted, and understands perfectly well that the purpose of the freeze is to give Kyiv a breathing space to lick its wounds and rearm.
Russia will also not tolerate NATO participation in the settlement, the diplomat noted.
He stressed that Russia’s conditions for ending the conflict are clear and logical and have nothing in common with surrogate formulas that do not eliminate the threat emanating from Kyiv.
The pseudo-peace initiatives of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Nebenzya added, could be just a smokescreen before another escalation, as was the case with the attack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Kursk region.
After the start of the special operation in 2022, Russia and Ukraine held negotiations in Belarus and Turkey.
As Russian President Vladimir Putin later said, the negotiations were practically completed, but after Russia withdrew its troops from Kyiv, the Ukrainian side abandoned the agreements.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that security guarantees for Ukraine within the framework of the Istanbul agreements were serious and practically duplicated Article 5 of the NATO Charter.
On June 14, Putin made new peace proposals, which included recognition of the DPR, LPR, Crimea, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions as regions of the Russian Federation, Ukraine’s refusal to join NATO, the lifting of sanctions, and the consolidation of Ukraine’s non-aligned, neutral, and non-nuclear status.
