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As 🇹🇷 Istanbul confirms its readiness to host direct negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, questions arise over 🇺🇦 Kiev's past performance in peace efforts. With previous talks collapsing and ceasefires repeatedly violated, can this round bring real progress? ⚖️🕊️  #RussiaUkraine #PeaceTalks #IstanbulNegotiations #UkraineConflict #RussiaUkraineWar #Geopolitics #Ceasefire #Diplomacy #Kiev #Moscow #TurkeyMediation #UkraineNews #RussiaNews #PeaceEfforts #ConflictResolution #UkraineTrackRecord #GlobalPolitics #IstanbulPeace #WarAndPeace #UkraineCrisis

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00:00now. Russia says it is ready for serious talks on the Ukraine conflict. The Kremlin spokesperson

00:08states that despite the collapse of the 2022 Istanbul agreement, Vladimir Putin is willing

00:14to quote, find a real diplomatic solution to the crisis. The Russian president issued a statement

00:22where he clearly and unambiguously declared our position on resuming direct talks in Istanbul

00:28without any preconditions. These are the very direct negotiations that were disrupted by the

00:34Ukrainian side in 2022. This approach, aimed precisely at finding a real diplomatic solution

00:40to the Ukraine crisis, eliminating the root causes of the conflict and establishing a lasting peace,

00:46has been met with understanding and support from the leaders of many countries, including our

00:51partners from the CIS, BRICS and other nations. The position of US President Donald Trump is also

00:57well known, as he has called on the Ukrainian side to immediately agree to participate in the

01:02meeting we proposed without any conditions. In a telephone conversation yesterday, Turkish President

01:08Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed his readiness to do everything possible to arrange the negotiations.

01:14Well, as Moscow considers which delegation members to send to Istanbul, Vladimir Zelenskyy has made an

01:21offer of sorts to take part personally in talks this week. Regarding that, the Russian foreign ministry

01:27spokeswoman recalled the one previous meeting between Zelenskyy and President Putin.

01:33The Paris summit in 2019 was remembered for Zelenskyy's shocking negotiating move, his unexpected refusal to

01:41approve the final document agreed in advance, including by Kiev. In August 2022, Danilov, now the former

01:48Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine admitted that Kiev was not going to do

01:54anything at that time, focusing on powerful preparations for war with Russia. As it turned

02:00out later, Berlin and Paris helped Kiev in preparing for this war. Yeah, not a good precedent. Well, first the

02:08Maidan coup, then the failed Minsk agreements, and finally the abandoned Istanbul talks. Moscow points out

02:14European involvement in supposed peace deals with Russia has only led one direction into deeper conflict. So it's perhaps no

02:22surprise, Vladimir Putin views negotiations with Kiev later this week with a dose of

02:27scepticism. Marina Kosrava takes us through that.

02:32It said,

02:32And Russia is no fool. They won't be fooled again by the very same countries who were supposed to reign in

02:43Ukraine in the past. Every time Europe sought a pause in the conflict, it was to help arm Ukraine. So how can

02:50their calls for peace are to be trusted now? And it all began over a decade ago.

02:55During the anti-Russian pro-EU protests that set off the conflict in 2013, when all hell broke loose,

03:06resulting in the deaths of up to 100 people with hundreds more injured. After initially egging on

03:12the protesters, the West decided to help defuse the situation by brokering a deal on February 21st,

03:19which saw Yanukovych and three opposition leaders sign an agreement to hold early presidential elections,

03:25form a national unity government and revert to the 2004 constitution, all supervised by the foreign

03:32ministers of Germany, Poland and France. It was largely seen as Yanukovych giving the opposition

03:39and its European supporters everything they wanted. And what happened next? Less than 24 hours later,

03:46Euromaidan activists violated the agreement by occupying the government quarter and issued new demands.

03:54They wanted the president's immediate resignation. He called the whole thing a coup and fled the country.

04:00All that is happening now for the most part is vandalism and crime. This is my strong belief.

04:06I will do everything it takes to prevent my country from splitting up to stop the bloodshed.

04:11The so-called guarantors of peace and stability from Europe had nothing to say about the mess that ensued,

04:17aside from claiming it definitely wasn't a coup. It all just happened apparently.

04:24No coup in Kyiv. Government buildings got abandoned. Speaker of Rada elected legally. President Viktor Yanukovych

04:32has 24 hours to sign 2004 constitution into law.

04:36That initial agreement was a big mistake according to Vladimir Putin. Given into the opposition's

04:42demands sent the wrong message. And the country is still paying for it to this day.

04:49I would like to draw your attention to the fact that President Yanukovych, through the mediation of

04:53the foreign ministers of three European countries, Poland, Germany and France, and in the presence of my

04:59representative, this was the Russian human rights commissioner Vladimir Lukin, signed an agreement

05:05with the opposition on February 21st. I would like to stress that under that agreement, I am not saying

05:11this was good or bad, just stating the fact, Mr. Yanukovych actually handed over power. He agreed to all the

05:18opposition's demands. He agreed to early parliamentary elections, to early presidential elections, and to

05:24return to the 2004 constitution, as demanded by the opposition. I asked myself, what was the purpose of

05:31all this? I want to understand why this was done. He had in fact given up his power already. And as I

05:38believe, as I told him, he had no chance of being re-elected. Everybody agrees on this. Everyone I have

05:45been speaking to on the telephone these past few days. What was the purpose of all those illegal,

05:50unconstitutional actions? Why did they have to create this chaos in the country?

05:58Instead of the promise of prosperity, what followed the protests and the coup were chaos and civil war

06:04between Kyiv and Donbass. After suffering a bloody defeat, which saw the deaths of hundreds of Ukrainian

06:10soldiers, Kyiv finally agreed to negotiations. Ukraine tends to want to talk when it's not doing well,

06:17politically or militarily. That was the case leading to the first Minsk protocol in September 2014. The

06:25agreement, which was supposed to end the bloodshed, was drafted and supervised by the trilateral contact

06:31group on Ukraine, consistent of Ukraine, Russia, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in

06:38Europe. It was a total failure, which led to the Minsk 2 agreement about six months later. Once again,

06:45a bloody defeat for Kyiv forced them to the negotiating table. This time they brought in the big guns,

06:52Francis Francois Hollande and Germany's Angela Merkel. They were supposed to ensure that the

06:57fighting would indeed end. But it was all a lie, as Kyiv and Europe later admitted themselves.

07:06The 2014 Minsk agreement was an attempt to give Ukraine time. It also used this time to become

07:12stronger, as you can see today. The Ukraine of 2014-15 is not the Ukraine of today,

07:18like it was in a battle for Dybaltsevo. At the beginning of 2015, Putin could easily have overrun

07:24them at that time. And I very much doubt that NATO countries could have done as much then as they do

07:30today to help Ukraine. There was an idea that Putin wanted to buy some time. No, it was us who wanted

07:38to buy time to allow Ukraine to recover, to strengthen its resources. That's why we have to defend the Minsk

07:45agreements, in which you, Poroshenko, played a very important role. They should be defended. It was

07:53precisely during these seven years that there were ways for Ukraine to strengthen itself. And this is

07:59where Putin made a mistake. He underestimated the capacity of the Ukrainians and their resistance.

08:07Neither Zelensky nor his European leaders were even hiding their total disrespect and disregard for

08:13those agreements and any new proposals. Have a look at this video, which shows how they behave when

08:20Vladimir Putin was reminding them about the terms they agreed upon in the Minsk agreements and ways

08:26to achieve peace. The Ukrainian constitution must be amended to formalize the special status of Donbass

08:33on a permanent basis. Of course, the duration of the agreement on the special status of separate

08:38Donbass districts must be extended and ultimately made permanent as it is stipulated in the Minsk agreements.

08:45After the peace agreements and Russia's concerns were completely ignored by the West,

08:50Moscow stepped in and launched the special military operation in February 2022.

08:59A month later, the situation had reached a boiling point, but there was a glimmer of hope.

09:04Russian and Ukrainian delegations were apparently very close to reaching a deal. That's before Boris

09:11Johnson decided to pay Kyiv a surprise visit and talked Zelensky out of the deal.

09:17When we returned from Istanbul, Boris Johnson came to Kyiv and said that we would not sign anything

09:23with Russia at all and to just fight. That is, they knew everything, especially when we already had a

09:30draft or some documents. They had access to all of it. And we consulted with them because we understood that

09:37we could not win the war ourselves. People inside Ukraine and people outside Ukraine started asking

09:44questions about whether this was a good deal. And that was at that point that it that it fell apart.

09:48But I think that plenty of people and perhaps Zelensky himself were very suspicious that they were about

09:55to fall into a trap. And if Putin could have gotten that, you know, completely neutered, demilitarized Ukraine

10:01for nothing. Why wouldn't he take it? And now Europe wants to have another go at peace. The very same

10:09countries who supervised the failed peace deals, who previously used that strategy to buy Kyiv some time

10:16and weapons. The same countries who talked Ukraine out of seeking peace each time, leading them further

10:24into a suicide mission. Well, responding to the Russian leader's offer of peace talks, Kyiv was quick

10:31to set a number of preconditions. Vladimir Zelensky is demanding an immediate ceasefire and said a direct

10:37meeting with President Putin is what he expects. Former US diplomat Jim Jatris told us such ultimatums

10:43appear part of a political game, which doesn't follow diplomatic protocol or any real efforts to reach an

10:50agreement. Well, I'll be there personally. Now, will President Putin come, meet with me,

10:56knowing that he's an illegitimate leader and really has no. And let's even go beyond that,

11:01not just his expired term. I think what he wants to do is throw that on the table and say,

11:06now, let's see if he shows up. If he shows up, then he's won a victory and saying, and now Putin is

11:11going to come and treat me like a real leader, even though I'm not. Or if he doesn't show up,

11:15he'll say, aha, see, we actually accommodated their ploy to say, let's have direct negotiations.

11:22And they wouldn't come. So then they put the monkey on the Russians back for not showing up. It's a win

11:27win for Zelensky in terms of the political, let's say theater, which is remember the basic stock and

11:33trade of the Ukrainian regime, because they're not winning the war. So they have to play political

11:39games like this. The Russians want an enduring peace that addresses the root causes of the

11:44conflict. Nobody in the West is pursuing that. They're trying to entice Russia into another

11:51Minsk-type agreement, a ceasefire that would freeze the conflict, kind of like a Korean War-type

11:57situation, and perpetuate the conflict for decades to come, but put it on hold, put it on a freeze for

12:03a while while the United States pursues other goals in the Middle East or in the Western Pacific.

12:09The signature of any of the European countries, and I'm sad to say of the United States,

12:14also means nothing. I think we've proved that so many times over the years that we can sign an

12:19agreement, we can put in a treaty, we can have a Security Council resolution, and it means exactly

12:23nothing. Because since we're all the forces of peace and light and democracy and human rights and

12:28whatever, we can also break our own agreements, and we're entirely justified in doing so. There's

12:33simply nothing except facts on the ground that Moscow can trust.

12:38That's the sign of that.

12:40That's the sign of austerity to the sites that go to the United States.

12:44So now let's go of the time to try to use that 빛.

12:45That's an important question.

12:46I want to be careful about that.

12:47I want to use the call to keep a separateắm of the city and we can sit down for the city.

12:49That's why I don't know that.

12:50But I want to be careful about that.

12:51I want to say that there's a peace.

12:52So let's go of that.

12:53I want to say that these entities are in this country.

12:55And then I want to say that there are great.

12:56And I want to be careful about that.

12:57So let's go of that.

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