R Johansen
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@EhsanMusic Russian President Vladimir Putin lied when he said that a peace agreement was allegedly signed at the Ukrainian-Russian talks in Istanbul in March 2022, but Ukraine broke it itself.
The leader of the Crimean Tatar people Mustafa Dzhemilev said this during the ceremony of rais-ing the Crimean Tatar flag near the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
"A few days ago, the Kremlin dictator Putin, speaking to the heads of several African countries, said that a peace agreement was allegedly signed at the Ukrainian-Russian talks in March 2022 in Istanbul, but Ukraine itself broke it and continued hostilities. Of course, Putin was lying in his usu-al manner. I say this responsibly because I was present at the final part of the negotiations in Tur-key. In fact, we handed over a letter to the Russian side as a condition for the cessation of hostili-ties, with a position to withdraw to the border as of February 24. And on the issues of Crimea and Donbas, to start a negotiation process, while committing not to use force to liberate these territo-ries. But the very next day after the talks in Turkey, Putin said that there could be no negotiations on Crimea, because it is allegedly the territory of Russia," Dzhemilev said.
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@EhsanMusic There wasn't any deal. Johnson said this to his own parliament: There is absolutely no sign that Russia wants to reach a deal with Ukraine, and it could not be trusted even if one was on offer, Boris Johnson has told the Commons.
And he was right, Russia had broken all the agreements so far, including Minsk. The former prime minister warned against a "land for peace" deal, and said he doubted Volodymyr Zelensky or any Ukrainian government would agree to any such compromise.
(While in 2014-2017 the implementation of the Minsk Accords could have led to a negotiated reintegration of Donbas into Ukraine under international supervision, the international situation and Russia’s intentions have changed. In fact, by late 2021 Russian authorities had all but integrated the breakaway republics into the Russian political, military and economic space, precluding any meaningful possibility of the region’s peaceful reintegration into Ukraine. Whilst the Ukrainian leadership pursued a ceasefire in Donbas from the summer of 2020, the Kremlin used it as a bargaining chip to put pressure on Zelensky’s government and to create a flimsy pretext for an invasion. Zelensky’s last-ditch attempts to return to the negotiations in late 2021 were rejected by Putin, who tore up the Minsk Accords by recognising the independence of the breakaway regions. Thus, instead of a roadmap to future peace, the Minsk Accords had largely become a military-diplomatic tool in the hands of Russian leadership to legitimise regime change and the dismemberment of Ukraine.)
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