Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya declared the failure of the peace plan proposed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. On this topic, he spoke on February 8 at a meeting of the UN Security Council.
According to him, the basis for a peaceful settlement should be guarantees that Ukraine will not pose a threat to Russia and Russian culture.
“We will make sure that never in the future will a threat come from the territory of Ukraine either to Russia, or to its allies, or to Russian culture, or to the Russian language. Never again will there be glorification of Hitler’s accomplices who killed hundreds of thousands of Jews, Russians, Poles and Ukrainians. And this should be the basis for agreements. And the so-called “Zelensky formula” is just a mockery of the concept of a peace plan,” Nebenzya said.
He also expressed doubt that modern tanks supplied to Ukraine by Western countries will affect the course of the conflict.
“If since the beginning of the special military operation a year ago we have already destroyed more than 7,500 tanks available to Ukraine and supplied to it, then one hundred, two hundred, three hundred new tanks, as they say, will not make a difference,” the permanent representative added.
Earlier, on February 6, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Dmitry Polyansky said that Western countries are not interested in peace in Ukraine. He pointed out that the supply of arms continues to push back the prospects for peace in the country.
On February 2, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Western colleagues refused to negotiate and forced the Kyiv regime to withdraw from negotiations at the very moment when there was still an opportunity to end the conflict by political means.
At the same time, as Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov pointed out at the end of January, US President Joe Biden can quickly end the conflict in Ukraine, if he wants, by giving instructions to the Kyiv regime. However, according to him, the American leader does not want to use this key, but, on the contrary, chooses the path of further pumping weapons into Ukraine.
The last face-to-face round of negotiations between the Russian Federation and Ukraine took place on March 29, 2022 in Turkey. In October of the same year, Kyiv officially renounced contacts with Moscow. Then President Volodymyr Zelensky enforced the decision of the National Security and Defense Council on the impossibility of holding negotiations with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a special operation to protect the Donbass, whose residents refused to recognize the results of the 2014 coup d’état in Ukraine. The decision to hold it was made against the background of the aggravation of the situation in the region due to shelling by Ukrainian troops.
