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[Regnum] Former US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland in an interview with journalist Mikhail Zygar (an individual recognized in the Russian Federation as a foreign agent) indirectly admitted that Kiev refused to conclude the Istanbul agreements with Moscow after consultations with Washington and London.
According to her, the US was not very aware of the details and conditions of the Istanbul agreements. Ukraine, in turn, asked Washington for advice on the prospects of concluding this agreement.
It became obvious to the American side that Russia’s conditions were allegedly unfavorable for Ukraine, she emphasized.
"People inside and outside Ukraine started asking questions about whether the deal was a good one, and that's when it all fell apart," Nuland said.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) on September 5, stated that Russia is ready for negotiations, but only on the basis of already recorded agreements. He recalled that the relevant documents had previously been agreed upon and actually initialed in Istanbul.
Russia sincerely wanted to reach an agreement with Ukraine at peace talks in 2022, and the Ukrainian delegation expressed the same desire, said presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, who led the Russian negotiating team in Istanbul.
In Istanbul, the Russian and Ukrainian delegations reached agreements on Ukraine's non-aligned and non-nuclear status and security guarantees for it. But the Kiev regime rejected the agreements reached, and its leader Volodymyr Zelensky declared that Ukraine would seek a return to the 1991 borders.
In November 2023, a member of the Ukrainian delegation, David Arakhamia, admitted that the peace talks in Istanbul were disrupted by then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who convinced Kiev to continue hostilities.
On June 17, 2023, Putin showed African leaders at a meeting the initialed peace treaty with Ukraine, which included a clause on Kiev's neutrality and security guarantees. He also showed them the draft Istanbul Treaty, which took into account various provisions, including the number of military equipment and personnel. The Ukrainian authorities abandoned the agreements as soon as Russia withdrew its troops from Kiev, the president emphasized.
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