From: New Voice of Ukraine 🇺🇦
The Kremlin intends to push its initial objectives of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine during any future “peace talks,” according to the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW). These objectives include dismantling Ukraine as a state, dissolving its current government, demilitarizing the country, and permanently barring it from NATO membership.
This analysis follows a recent interview given by Nikolai Patrushev, an aide to Vladimir Putin and former secretary of Russia’s Security Council, to the Russian outlet Komsomolskaya Pravda. The interview, published Jan. 14, comes just days before the U.S. presidential transition on Jan. 20.
Kremlin rejects any territorial concessions
Patrushev dismissed the idea that Russia might relinquish any occupied Ukrainian territories, calling it “not even up for discussion.” He falsely claimed that the sham referendums in occupied Ukrainian regions in Sept. 2022 legitimized Russia’s claims over parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhya, and Kherson oblasts. Patrushev also suggested that international recognition of Russia’s illegal annexation of these regions and Crimea would be a precondition for any agreement.
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