Ukrainian officials rejected the thought suggested by French President Emmanuel Macron that the West should see however to code Russia’s request for information guarantees if Moscow agrees to negotiations astir ending Vladimir Putin’s nine-month warfare successful Ukraine.
On Sunday, Oleksiy Danilov, caput of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council, questioned providing information guarantees “to a violent and slayer state.”
“Instead of Nuremberg — to motion an statement with [Russia] and shingle hands?” Danilov tweeted, referring to the trials of Nazi warfare criminals aft World War II. “Ukrainian humor connected Putin’s hands volition not fuss concern arsenic usual?” helium wrote.
He was responding to a televised interview published connected Saturday successful which Macron said Europe should sermon “how to springiness guarantees to Russia the time it returns to the negotiating table” implicit the warfare successful Ukraine.
“One of the indispensable points we indispensable address — arsenic President Putin has ever said — is the fearfulness that NATO comes close up to its doors, and the deployment of weapons that could endanger Russia,” Macron said.
Danilov said helium believes that a “denuclearized and demilitarized” Russia is “the champion warrant of bid for Europe and the world.”
Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to the bureau of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said that alternatively of guarantees to the Kremlin, the satellite needs information guarantees “from the barbaric intentions of post-Putin Russia.” However, helium wrote connected societal media, this volition beryllium imaginable lone aft tribunals and convictions of the authors of the warfare connected Ukraine arsenic good arsenic the imposition of reparations.
This is not the archetypal rift betwixt Kyiv and Paris implicit imaginable negotiations with the Kremlin. Zelenskyy said successful May that Macron asked Ukraine to marque concessions connected its sovereignty to assistance Putin prevention face.
The Elysée rejected Zelenskyy’s allegations astatine the time, stressing that Macron has ne'er asked Zelenskyy for immoderate concessions.
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