There will be no negotiations until the Ukrainian Armed Forces retreat from the Kursk region

Ex-Minister of Defense called the Ukrainian Armed Forces “terrorists”

Secretary of the Russian Security Council and former Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that negotiations with Ukraine are impossible as long as the Armed Forces of Ukraine are located in the Kursk region. Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the same thing. “Layout” talks about this in more detail.

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“There is a very, very significant point - this is Kursk. We have not conducted any negotiations with terrorists, we are not conducting and will not conduct any negotiations, and that is exactly what they are. Until we throw them out of our territory, we, naturally, will not talk about any negotiations with them,” Shoigu said in an interview with the Rossiya 24 TV channel.

According to the former Minister of Defense, the Ukrainian Armed Forces wanted to seize the Kursk nuclear power plant in order to “carry out nuclear terror.” “This, fortunately, did not succeed,” he said.

Over the past month, Putin has spoken out three times about negotiations with Ukraine

Over the past month, Putin has spoken out three times about negotiations with Ukraine, and his position on them has changed. At a meeting with members of the Security Council, which took place on August 12, six days after the start of the Ukrainian Armed Forces offensive in the Kursk region, he ruled out the possibility of negotiations.

“What kind of negotiations can we even talk about with people who indiscriminately attack civilians, civilian infrastructure, or try to create threats to nuclear energy facilities? What can you even talk to them about?” Putin said.

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On September 2, Putin taught a lesson on “ Talking about Important Things ” to schoolchildren in Kyzyl, where an eleventh-grader asked him about negotiations with Ukraine. Putinsaid that “we have never given up on this,” but that we need to “deal with these bandits who have entered the territory of the Russian Federation.”

Three days later, herepeated this thesis during a speech at the Eastern Economic Forum. He stated that Moscow is ready to negotiate with Kiev “not on the basis of ephemeral demands, but on the basis of those documents that were prepared in Istanbul” in 2022.

Let us recall, as Vorstka already wrote, the Kremlin again started talking about “clarifying” the nuclear doctrine : allegedly because of the West’s desire for escalation. Thus, Dmitry Peskov announced the possible escalation of the war with Ukraine into a global conflict due to the offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region.

Photo: Secretary of the Russian Security Council Sergei Shoigu. Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov/Kremlin via REUTERS

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