Moscow responds to Putin's proposal. "Peace on Russian conditions"

At night from Saturday to Sunday, about 2 hours Moscow time (1 in Poland – ed.) Vladimir Putin appeared before journalists at a conference summarizing the diplomatic gathering during the celebration of triumph Day.

President of Russia in his speech He besides referred to the proposal for a 30-day ceasefirewhich was announced a fewer hours earlier by Volodymyr Zelenski. The Kremlin leader, according to the propaganda message, emphasized that Russia from the beginning of the conflict is ready to negotiate.

– As we know, Russia has repeatedly launched ceasefire initiatives, but the Ukrainian side has repeatedly sabotaged these initiatives (...) We propose to start them (peace negotiations – ed.) immediately, next Thursday, May 15, in Istanbul, where they were held earlier and where they were interrupted, he announced.

War in Ukraine. Moscow comments on Putin's proposal

The Russian President's words met with a wave of comments from parliamentarians, senators and political commentators. The position given by the Kremlin leader tried to explain among others. Senator Konstanin Kosaczov.

The politician made available on social media an entry in which he clearly suggested that peace talks would be conducted exclusively according to the script created in the Kremlin.

‘Two alternatives. A truce without negotiations, without prospects for further peace versus negotiations leading to peace... Let's give peace a chance. But on conditions written down for 3 years by our soldiers and won by all of Russia. Suffered by forces of good against forces of evil," he said.

The same is actual of others Russian Senator Andrei Kliszas.

“Despite all the efforts of Zelenski’s “friends” Ukrainian initiative is entirely on Russia's side, both in the military and diplomatic spheres," he wrote.

Moscow – Kiev peace talks? Sergei Markov: For Russia favorable

The fact that the Russians accept only the Kremlovian version of the peace script with Ukraine besides convinces the popular Russian propagandist, Politologist Sergei Markov.

In his opinion, Vladimir Putin is well aware that return is the alleged Istanbul agreements, is the certainty of fulfilling all the objectives of the peculiar military operation (propagand designation of war in Ukraine – ed.).

"It is beneficial for Russia to proceed these negotiations, because, among another things, an crucial rule of the demilitarisation of Ukraine was established there. Establishing restrictions on the numbers of the Ukrainian army and its dense weapons and its deployment," he argued.

The crucial simplification of the military capacity of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the blockade of cooperation with NATO and the EU, as well as the restoration of the position of the Russian minority, are the conditions that Russia has set since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in February 2022.