Russia’s latest demands to start peace negotiations without withdrawing troops from Ukraine is a ploy to buy time for the next phase of the war, according to the top Ukrainian diplomat.
"No other country in the world wants peace in Ukraine more than Ukraine itself ... but we also know that accepting Russian ultimatums will not bring peace,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said in a videoconference with the European Union Foreign Affairs Council. “Russia wants a pause to replenish its forces and launch an even more brutal attack as soon as it will be able to do so.
“This is a new 1938 moment for Europe and certainly not a time to seek 'peace for our time,'” Kuleba said, referring to the infamous Munich Agreement that conceded Czechoslovakian territory to Adolf Hitler’s control. “We need real peace this time. Otherwise, all of our names will be put down in history books as appeasers who failed to prevent a catastrophe. And none of us, I mean both you and me, are interested in this.
Other Western leaders endorsed that posture. “I think the possibility for negotiations comes when Russia withdraws [its troops] from those areas that Russia has been occup[ying],” Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said Monday. “The time of the negotiations is something that Ukraine has to define and I think they have clear goals of taking back those areas that have been occupied by Russia.”
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