Russia-Ukraine negotiations: Indulgence for Russia will mean 'more arbitrary in its crimes against humanity'
Mykhailo Podolyak, an Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine (Photo: RBC-Ukraine, Vitalii Nosach)
Russia must face punishment for all the crimes it has committed after the outbreak of war. Granting indulgence will only make the country-terrorist more audacious in its crimes, stated Mykhailo Podolyak, an Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine.
"For those who are fans of the topic of 'negotiations with Russia.' From what perspective does Russia, after the outbreak of full-scale war, mass killings of Ukrainians, daily rocket attacks on civilian infrastructure, demonstrative disregard for international law and conventions, undermining and mining critical facilities, organizing a network of torture in the occupied territories, stealing tens of thousands of children, and other war crimes without losing the war and without condemnation by a tribunal... suddenly want to voluntarily become law-abiding and return to scrupulous observance of international norms?" Podolyak wrote.
According to the advisor to the President's Office of Ukraine, if Russia is granted an indulgence, it will become "even more audacious in its crimes against humanity."
Negotiations with Russia
Last year, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a decision based on the conclusion of the National Security and Defense Council that negotiations with dictator Vladimir Putin are impossible. As Podolyak noted, Ukraine does not plan to respond to Russia's "negotiating nonsense" as it has no sense.
For negotiations to resume, Russia must:
- altogether, leave the territory of Ukraine;
- change its political elite;
- acknowledge war crimes;
- extradite the organizers of the war to a tribunal.
Meanwhile, in the UAE, as reported by L'Orient-Le Jour, there are plans to organize a meeting between Zelenskyy and Putin during COP28 - the United Nations Climate Change Conference.
