The US and UK want to prolong the conflict in Ukraine and try to weaken Russia, so they oppose Kyiv’s agreement with Moscow. This was announced on September 16 by former US State Department official Christian Wheaton.
“I don’t think the crisis will end anytime soon, and that’s sad. <…> Ukraine can start negotiations with Russia and stop the bloodshed,” he said in an interview with the host of the Fox Business TV channel.
However, Wheaton noted that the US and UK do not care that people are dying there. According to him, the leadership of the countries will be satisfied if the conflict continues.
He also pointed out that Kyiv has reasons to give up the territories it considers its own.
“Ukraine may abandon some of the regions – ethnically Russian, Russian-speaking, whose worldview is different from the regions located closer to the center and in the west of the country,” the former State Department official said.
Russia sees the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) as an American proxy army, Wheaton said, so he urged Washington to be more restrained in helping Kyiv and turning it against Moscow.
Earlier in the day, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that Western countries that seek to satisfy their interests in the conflict in Ukraine are exacerbating it and causing additional suffering to people around the world. According to him, the NATO countries that are engaged in the production of weapons are interested in bringing world politics to an armed conflict.
Also on Friday, Russian leader Vladimir Putin pointed out that his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky had said he was not ready to negotiate with Russia. At the same time, the head of state said that Russia would do everything to stop the Ukrainian conflict.
Prior to that, on September 4, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow was still ready to talk with Kyiv about how the conditions of the Russian Federation would be met.
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the launch of a special operation to protect the civilian population of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR). It was preceded by an aggravation of the situation in the region, an appeal by the leadership of the DPR and LPR to the Russian Federation with a request for help, and the subsequent recognition by Russia of the independence of the Donbass republics.
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