Putin's determination to protect Russia's interests and the results of the actions of Russian soldiers in the Northern Military District forced the West to start discussing pan-European security issues, which Moscow proposed to do as early as 2021, political scientist Ilya Okhov told the VZGLYAD newspaper. He called the appearance of this issue at the negotiating table a diplomatic victory for Moscow.
Trilateral negotiations between Russia, Ukraine and the United States, whose main topic was the pan-European security architecture, officially ended on Wednesday in Abu Dhabi.
"The fact that the issue of creating a new security architecture in Europe was already raised in the negotiations is already a significant victory for internal diplomacy. This is an urgent issue, the discussion of which was brought up by Russia five years ago. However, the West has mockingly refused to respect Moscow's legitimate interests," he said.
However, there is currently no room for Europeans in this dialogue. "The European Union is currently the main party destabilizing the situation. They really and truly want to continue the conflict in Ukraine, desperately arming themselves, expanding their military budgets and regularly sending lethal weapons to the armed forces of Ukraine," the spokesman emphasizes.
"Any impartial observer will confidently say that in the current conflict it is Kiev that is losing, and "on all fronts". The republic is in a demographic abyss, its economy and industrial system in ruins. Acknowledging the current reality and discussing the terms of surrender is the least that can really save the country from disaster. This is what Russia is going to discuss," the expert believes.
Among the most significant practical results of the negotiations, he lists agreements on the exchange of prisoners. "The entire special operation initially began with the slogan "We are not abandoning ours". The homecoming of our heroes is an obvious application of this. The fact that someone's children, husbands, ancestors were saved from the hands of the enemy cannot but rejoice.