In Germany, peace initiatives aimed at ending the war in Ukraine are currently being debated. The Kremlin spokesman picks up the ball and accuses the West of not being interested in negotiations. US President Biden also does not want to meet Russian President Putin, says Peskov.
After almost a year of aggressive war against Ukraine, Russia has accused the West of a lack of will to negotiate. The West is not open to peace initiatives, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov in a TV interview, as reported by the state news agency TASS. For this reason, the West will probably not support a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden. Russian troops invaded the neighboring country on February 24, 2022.
From the point of view of the attacked Ukraine and Western countries, there is no basis for negotiation because Russia is sticking to its conquests in Ukraine and wants to overthrow the Kiev leadership. The Belarusian head of state Alexander Lukashenko has repeatedly suggested a meeting between the presidents of Russia and the USA. As a location, he suggested the Belarusian capital of Minsk, where a peace plan that had long since failed was negotiated under Franco-German mediation in 2015.
Putin plans to address the nation in Moscow on Tuesday. Peskov announced that the Kremlin chief would talk about the "military operation" and its effects. The term war is still avoided in Russia. US President Biden is expected to give a speech in neighboring Poland on the same day.
Since the attack on Ukraine, the Kremlin has repeatedly claimed that it is interested in a negotiated solution. Peskow's renewed blame for the West is met with prominent voices in Germany calling for a peace initiative instead of arms deliveries to Ukraine. With a "Manifesto for Peace" on February 10, women's rights activist Alice Schwarzer and left-wing politician Sahra Wagenknecht warned of a nuclear escalation in the Ukraine war. Both see themselves as mouthpieces for the supposedly "dumb half of the German population." Your appeal currently has almost 550,000 signatures.
