Russia demands that NATO and the US end aid to Ukraine as a condition for negotiating peace

Dec. 23 () –

The Russian Foreign Ministry assures that there will be no peace negotiations to end the invasion in Ukraine as long as there are NATO and US personnel in the country.

The Russian diplomat Alexander Darchiev, director of the Department for North America of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has indicated two conditions so that “serious negotiations” can be launched to establish peace in the framework of the war in Ukraine, since he considers that, without them, “it is not possible” to advance in the dialogue.

Thus, he has indicated that NATO and the United States must put an end to both financial and military aid packages, as well as the presence of members in the country, or the recognition of “the true situation in the country’s territory”, according to declared in an interview with the Russian agency TASS.

“It will be premature to launch serious negotiations on security guarantees in the context of Ukraine and the Euro-Atlantic region while arms and funds are injected into the (Ukrainian) regime, while the US and NATO military remain in the country, and unless they recognize each other some practical developments on the ground,” Darchiev said.

After this enumeration, the Russian diplomat has assured that “the ball is now in the court of the United States.” Meanwhile, he has stressed that the Kremlin has made “an honest attempt to reach an agreement”, for which reason Moscow, “under these circumstances”, does not trust “the United States or the West”.

“As it turned out some time ago, the sweet Western reassurances of not having any aggressive intentions at all and of being committed to the Minsk agreements disguised the effort to rearm the Ukrainian army and concentrate forces to retake and destroy Donbas,” he said.