Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman, Dmitry Medvedev has asserted that Ukraine would be wise to accept Russian President Vladimir Putin’s peace proposal.
On June 14, 2024, Putin made proposals for resolving the conflict in Ukraine at a meeting with Russian diplomats.
The Ukrainian side rejected the initiative.
“Frankly speaking, I think that the president has said everything, I mean that the next peace proposal Russia makes will be worse for the Ukrainian authorities, no matter how we treat them,” Medvedev told reporters.
“Now they have the opportunity to consider Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin’s peace proposal and at least try to make peace and end this part of the conflict,” he said.
Otherwise, Medvedev noted, the Russian offensive will continue.
“And it will be difficult to say where the lines of the buffer zone that Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned will be. It’s very likely that all this will not work to the benefit of the current Ukrainian authorities. So they have to hurry while they still can.”
Dmitry Medvedev
However, according to the official, Kyiv has already responded with a refusal at the conference in Switzerland, “rejecting any proposals from the outset, taking the discussion back to the very beginning.”
“In vain. So it will be worse from now on,” he stated.
Medvedev’s comments echoed a statement made earlier by Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Director, Sergey Naryshkin.
In an interview, Naryshkin noted that the conditions of the next peace proposal for Ukraine if the current one is rejected will be more complex and harsh.
It was in response to a question as to what will happen if Ukraine refuses Russian President Vladimir Putin’s peace proposal.
Peace Summit Deemed Ukraine’s Most Important Diplomatic Breakthrough
Meanwhile, Andriy Yermak, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, asserted that the Peace Summit is Ukraine’s most important diplomatic breakthrough since independence.
He called it a great success that the countries participating in the Summit supported the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine, as well as the need for a just peace for our country.
“How to bring a just peace is also another thesis to which there are no questions. And even all the speeches of leaders from different continents were about a just peace. That is why I consider this to be a great success for Ukraine.”
Andriy Yermak
The Head of the President’s Office is convinced that more states will join the Joint Communiqué on a Peace Framework in the near future.
The working groups are to hold a series of thematic conferences at the level of ministries and experts to supplement the document’s points with a step-by-step action plan on the path to a just peace in Ukraine.
“The plan that is based on the norms of international law, on the principles of the UN Charter, and it is the plan that yields results. It shows what the end will be. And in the end, there will be an end to the war, a just peace, the return of all our people, all our children, and overcoming the crises caused by this war.”
Andriy Yermak
“And, of course, there will be accountability of the aggressor country for everything it has done, in all dimensions – material, non-material, and criminal,” Yermak added.
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