Russian ruler Vladimir Putin has claimed that to achieve peace, Ukraine must, among other things, hold a referendum on whether its territories belong to Russia or Ukraine.
Source: Putin at a press conference in Beijing
Details: The Russian dictator said that if the Ukrainian authorities “want to be legitimate and take full part in the settlement process”, they “must first of all hold a referendum”.
Quote: “According to Ukraine’s Constitution, questions regarding territories, any of them, are decided only by referendum.”
Details: Putin noted that Ukraine would need to lift martial law to hold such a referendum.
The Kremlin leader again claimed that Volodymyr Zelenskyy is an illegitimate president of Ukraine, arguing that his term has expired and that martial law does not give him the right to remain in office.
Background:
- The meeting between the leaders of Ukraine and Russia was the main topic of discussions between the US, Europe and Ukraine after the Alaska summit, but the Kremlin is doing everything it can to prevent it from taking place.
- Axios reported that US President Donald Trump is seriously considering putting his diplomatic efforts regarding the Russo-Ukrainian war on hold “until one or both parties begin to show more flexibility”.
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If Zelensky is so popular, what is he afraid of? He controls the media together with Kolomoisky anyway…
Why should Ukraine do what putler says?
Because Putler is a liar. With his propaganda he wants a weak preZident to stay in power. Zaluzhny certainly is not pro-ruSSia. Btw, ZelenZkov put Poroshenko under house-arrest and corruption is only getting worse.
Zelensky is not weak at all, if he had been, he would have took the first plane out in 2022. I don’t know where you get the idea that Poroshenko is under house arrest, I can’t find any proof of that.
Then you must be blind.
Send me a link. I know he was supposed to be under investigation in 2022, but nothing come of that yet.
https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/analyses/2022-01-12/ukraine-poroshenko-faces-charges
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-ex-president-says-he-was-blocked-leaving-country-2023-12-01/
That was two years ago. I thought you was talking about something recent.
Hold on a bit. Didn’t putler already hold referendums on the occupied territories? Is he now trying to claim these referendum are illegitimate?
“According to Ukraine’s Constitution, questions regarding territories, any of them, are decided only by referendum.”
They had a referendum in 1991. Over 90% voted to break away from the subhuman trash called russia.