GGeneral of the US Armed Forces Milli: the conflict in Ukraine should end at the negotiating table, General Mark Milli believes that the conflict should end diplomatically. He said it was time for Russians and Ukrainians to sit down at the negotiating table
Mark Milli
The conflict in Ukraine must end diplomatically. This was stated by the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States Mark Milley at a press conference following the meeting of the contact group for support of Kiev in Ramstein.
“This war, like many others, must end through an agreement reached in the negotiations, it’s time for the Russians and Ukrainians to sit down at the negotiating table,” he said.
Active negotiations between Russia and Ukraine took place in February—March 2022, including at the site in Istanbul, but in May they came to naught.
At the end of September last year, after the inclusion of the DPR, the LPR, as well as the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions into Russia, the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky signed a decree refusing to negotiate with Russia while its president is Vladimir Putin.
Later, Zelensky allowed a dialogue on the terms of the “formula of peace”, which provides for the cessation of hostilities and the withdrawal of Russian troops. Turkey expressed support for this.
The Russian Foreign Ministry called the conditions put forward by Kiev unrealistic and inadequate to the situation. The Kremlin noted that the Ukrainian authorities should take into account the realities and the emergence of new subjects in Russia. Among other requirements of Moscow is the nuclear-free, non-aligned and neutral status of Ukraine.
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According to Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, significant progress was made in negotiations between the states at the beginning of last spring, but then the conflict dragged on and the dialogue between the parties became more complicated.
“We made decent progress at the beginning. In fact, you are aware that the parties were approaching at least a truce. But now the conflict has dragged on, circumstances have changed, it has become more difficult,” he said.
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