MOSCOW, December 11. /TASS/. Kiev may be deliberately setting unacceptable conditions for negotiations to later blame Russia for a failure in talks; Thailand-Cambodia conflict has escalated sharply, triggering renewed international mediation efforts; and Russia and the UAE aim to double bilateral trade to $20 bln. These stories topped Thursday’s newspaper headlines across Russia.
Kiev is putting forward conditions unacceptable to Russia in order to later accuse Moscow of sabotaging the negotiations, the Russian Foreign Ministry told Izvestia. Vladimir Zelensky unexpectedly declared that he was ready to hold elections in Ukraine, while simultaneously insisting that security be ensured by the United States and Europe. In practice, this would amount to a ceasefire outside of any peace agreement, which contradicts Moscow’s position.
Kiev will once again attempt to blame Russia for a breakdown in the negotiations, Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large for Crimes of the Kiev Regime Rodion Miroshnik said. Ukraine, he noted, is posturing in response to pressure from the United States and to Trump’s demands that it make maximum progress on the plan he proposed.
At present, Zelensky is stalling to rewrite the terms of the agreement proposed by Donald Trump: having rejected the American plan, Kiev and Brussels are coordinating their own, the newspaper writes. The statements made by the heads of the Kiev regime should not be taken seriously, Verkhovna Rada deputy Artem Dmitruk told Izvestia.
