RT station (Russia) reported, recently The Jerusalem Post (Israel) news agency quoted an unnamed senior Ukrainian official as saying, in a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky On March 8, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett was said to have advised Kiev to accept Russia’s demands for an end to a military conflict that had lasted more than two weeks.
In particular, the Jerusalem Post quoted an unnamed official as saying Prime Minister Bennett is said to have advised President Zelensky as follows: “If I were you, I would think about people’s lives and accept the offer. [của Nga].”
“Prime Minister Bennett advised us to surrender,” the Ukrainian official said, adding that Kiev had “no intention” to accept Russian President Vladimir Putin’s demands.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett
However, according to the Axios (US) news agency, a number of high-ranking Ukrainian and Israeli officials denied this information in a Jerusalem Post post.
In particular, Axios said a high-ranking official in Prime Minister Bennett’s office was quick to deny the reports, saying that the Israeli prime minister “had no intention of making any recommendations or suggestions to Mr. Bennett. [của cuộc xung đột]”.
On March 12, the adviser to the Ukrainian government, Mykhailo Podolyak, also denied that Zelensky accepted this suggestion.
Podolyak clarified on Twitter: “Israel, like other conditional intermediary states, does not ask Ukraine to agree to any request from the Russian Federation. This is impossible for many military, political and business reasons”.
Israel has acted as a mediator during the ongoing military conflict in Ukraine. Last week, Prime Minister Bennett traveled to Moscow to meet with President Putin and also spoke by telephone with President Zelensky. Bennett also met German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron after meeting the Russian leader.
Russia has demanded that Ukraine declare itself neutral and vowed never to join the US-led NATO military alliance. On March 11, President Putin announced that there had been “some positive progress” in talks between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators, but did not elaborate on these developments.
President Zelensky is ready to negotiate with Russia
According to RT, during a press conference with foreign media on March 12, President Zelensky once again reiterated that he is ready to negotiate with Russia, and asked the Israeli Prime Minister to lead the peace talks in Jerusalem. .
“The two Russian-Ukrainian delegations are actually discussing, not just issuing an ultimatum,” Zelensky said.
According to Zelensky, Kiev believes that any high-level talks with Russia should be held on neutral territory, with Israel as a potential venue.
However, President Zelensky said that if negotiations are successful, his country will need some “security guarantees” for the ongoing conflict to be resolved not only from Russia’s point of view but also from Russia’s point of view. He suggested that Israel could act as guarantor of these conditions.
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