Resumption of talks: Moscow threatens Kyiv with "completely different conditions" for peace

When Russian troops retreat near Kyiv in the spring, it becomes clear what atrocities they have committed in the suburb of Bucha.

Resumption of talks: Moscow threatens Kyiv with "completely different conditions" for peace

When Russian troops retreat near Kyiv in the spring, it becomes clear what atrocities they have committed in the suburb of Bucha. As a result, the peace negotiations between the Kremlin and Ukraine come to a standstill. If they continue, Moscow intends to remain firm.

Russia has promised Ukraine tougher terms than before if peace talks resume. Yuri Ushakov, an adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, complained that concrete results were achieved in the negotiations in Turkey in March before Kyiv broke off contact. "So if the negotiations are resumed now, it will be on completely different terms," ​​said Ushakov - without giving details.

After the negotiations, Russian troops withdrew north of Kyiv - also in view of the bitter military resistance of the Ukrainians. As a result, among other things, mass graves of civilians were discovered in the small town of Bucha. Since then, there have been no new peace talks. As early as February, Putin stated that the goals of what Moscow called a "special military operation" against Ukraine were the "denazification" and "demilitarization" of Ukraine, its neutral status, the cession of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and the recognition of Crimea, which had been annexed since 2014 called Russian. Moscow entered the negotiations with these demands.

However, Russian troops have also occupied parts of the Zaporizhia region in south-eastern Ukraine and almost all of the Kherson region in the south. The pro-Russian administration deployed there has long been talking about plans to hold referendums on accession to Russia. A commander of the Russian troops has also named the creation of a Russian corridor along the Black Sea coast to the conflict region of Transnistria in the neighboring Republic of Moldova as a war goal.

NATO and Ukraine remain a permanent threat to Russia, according to Deputy Head of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev. Unless NATO and Ukraine recognize Crimea, which was annexed in 2014, as part of Russia, the country is at risk, the former president said at a meeting with veterans in Volgograd on Monday. If Ukraine tries to recapture the peninsula, the "Last Judgment" will immediately fall on all Ukrainians, "very quickly and severely," Medvedev threatened.