Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin’s head, is trying to convince everyone that during the full-scale armed invasion of Ukraine in 2022, he did not plan to “assault” Kyiv.
Source: Kremlin-aligned news agency RIA Novosti, citing Putin’s statement
Quote from the message: “Russian troops were near Kyiv in March 2022, but Putin said there was no talk of storming the capital of Ukraine.”
Quote from Putin: “There was no political decision to storm the three-million-strong city; it was a coercive operation to establish peace.”
Why it’s important: Russia invaded and occupied Ukrainian Crimea and part of Donbas back in 2014. In 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, attacking peaceful towns across the country with missiles and bombs during the night. It was notable that Russian propagandists actively spread claims in the first days that “Russia will capture Kyiv in three days,” and Russian soldiers advancing towards Kyiv were dressed in full-dress uniforms, supposedly to parade on Khreshchatyk street after these “three days.”
However, the Armed Forces of Ukraine managed to drive out the Russians from Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy oblasts. They continue to hold back the Russians on other fronts.
Realising that victory would not be achieved, Russia began pushing the idea of supposed peace negotiations, through which it intends to retain all occupied territories. Meanwhile, the Russians continue to terrorise Ukraine by targeting energy and civilian infrastructure, as well as residential buildings, most often at night.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/06/14/7460780
“There was no political decision to storm the three-million-strong city; it was a coercive operation to establish peace.”
There already was peace before your scum invaded. Your plan to take Kyiv backfired spectacularly, and you come up with all sorts of excuses as to why your trash army was chased all the way back to Belarus, in the most humiliating retreat in russian history.
“Putin spoke about the “end of the war” and voiced conditions for the start of negotiations with Ukraine”
– Ukrainian troops must be completely withdrawn from “L/DPR”, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia within the administrative borders.
– As soon as the real withdrawal of troops begins and Kyiv refuses to join NATO, Moscow will order a ceasefire and the start of negotiations, Putin said.
– According to him, Russia needs Ukraine’s neutral, non-aligned and nuclear-free status for a peaceful settlement.
– “The status of Crimea, “L/DPR”, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions as regions of the Russian Federation should be fixed in international treaties.”
– All Western sanctions against Russia should be lifted
https://x.com/nexta_tv/status/1801566983797854302
Like everything that comes from Moscow, it is absurd, inconceivable, unrealistic, violent. I hope that after this latest stab at international law, certain states will stop wanting to impose peace dialogues on Ukraine according to the demands of terrorist states which respect nothing.
We must now support Ukraine, whatever the cost, otherwise the entire system of international relations, which is struggling to hold together, will collapse.
Concessions must inevitably be made in resolutions aimed at ending a war. But here, it is asking for the suicide of Ukraine.
“Non-aligned status and the start of dialog with Russia, on which Ukraine’s future existence depends”
https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1801569486211875092
Undoubtedly the detail and the key phrase that says everything about the imperialist and genocidal intentions of the Kremlin Nazi towards Ukraine.
In 2024, terrorists demand ransoms, but also medals and recognition for their misdeeds. So-called democratic states are ready to accede to their demands. International law, which barely keeps international relations afloat, is on the brink of collapse if even one of these insane demands is taken into account.