Russia wants and needs peace for many years, according to the head of the Russian foreign intelligence service, Sergei Naryshkin, but for that, according to him, it is necessary to remove the causes that led to the war in Ukraine. It means peace according to the demands set by Russian President Vladimir Putin, he said. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. will ensure Ukraine has what it needs to make it through 2025.
27.11.2024 06:25
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In a photo provided by the press service of the 24th Ukrainian Mechanized Brigade, its members fire a mortar at Russian positions near the town of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024.
6:30 In the case of Ukraine, Russia wants to establish lasting peace for years to come. After the 20th meeting of the heads of the security forces and intelligence services of the CIS member states, this was said by the director of the foreign intelligence service of the Russian Federation, Sergei Naryshkin, according to the Russian agency TASS. According to him, it is necessary to eliminate the causes that led to the war in Ukraine.
“We need permanent and long-term peace for many years, this peace must be secured primarily for us – for Russia, for the citizens of the Russian Federation, but this peace must be secured for the entire European continent, and the condition for securing peace is the elimination of those reasons that caused the so-called the Ukrainian conflict,” he answered a question from the TASS agency.
Naryshkin noted that Russia categorically rejects any possibility of freezing the conflict in Ukraine. According to him, talk about freezing the conflict in Ukraine is due to the fact that the strategic initiative on the battlefield belongs exclusively to the Russian army, and the West is now not thinking about the strategic defeat of Russia, but about how not to lose to Moscow itself.
“Russia is open to negotiations (on Ukraine) and the conditions of such negotiations were named by the Russian president already in June at a meeting with the leadership of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs,” he said. “The sooner Western capitals understand that it is necessary to accept the terms of the peace treaty proposed by the Russian president, and therefore the negotiations, the better it will be for Ukraine and for Europe and, of course, for Russia,” Naryshkin noted, according to the TASS agency.
6:25 The US will make sure Ukraine has what it needs to “fight through to 2025,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said, according to Sky News. According to him, the G7 group and its partners are determined to provide Ukraine with money, ammunition and power so that it can effectively fight or negotiate peace from a position of strength in 2025.
The diplomat said after meetings with G7 foreign ministers in Italy that the US is continuing to increase security assistance to bolster Ukraine’s defenses in the east.
He also said Russia’s deployment of North Korean troops in the war with Ukraine was a matter of “great concern” to the G7. “The reality is this: Ukraine is fighting for us. He is not only fighting for himself, but for us,” he said.
“What we have said from the beginning, and the reason why so many countries are participating in the defense of Ukraine, is that the aggression that Russia is perpetrating is not only against Ukraine and its people. It is an aggression against the very principles which are at the core of the international system and which are necessary to maintain peace and stability,” he said, according to Sky News.
Source: spravy.pravda.sk
