Ukraine says negotiations ‘pointless’ without repelling Russian troops

“As long as we have not received enough weapons, our position has not improved and we have not pushed the Russian troops as far as possible towards the border, there is no point in holding negotiations,” said Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, on June 4 announced.

Earlier, French President Emmanuel Macron called on the parties involved in the Ukrainian war to avoid “embarrassing” Russia in order to maintain the opportunity to resolve the conflict through diplomacy. He shared that over the past three months, he has spent more than 100 hours on the phone with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, trying to find a peaceful way out of the European security crisis.

President Macron proposed France acting as a mediator between Russia and Ukraine. He also warned that if the war in Ukraine caused Moscow to lose face, the door to resolving the conflict by diplomacy would be closed.

However, Foreign Minister Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba on June 4 responded to the call from the French head of state. He criticized the message “only to cause loss of face for France and all nations that agree”.

“We need to focus on our efforts to bring water Russia return to their correct place. Only that way will bring peace back and save lives,” he shared on Twitter, responding to the French president’s proposal to mediate.

President Zelensky on June 2 said about 1/5 area of ​​Ukraine controlled by Russian forces, including the Crimean peninsula and the eastern part of the territory held by the separatists.

Fighting continued along a front line stretching for more than 1,000 kilometers in the provinces from Kharkov to Mykolaiv in the south of the country. The Donbass region was once one of the most powerful industrial centers in Europe but is now devastated, according to the Ukrainian leader.

However, the Ukrainian army has received additional aid from the West and some European countries in the past time Heavy Weapons. The US has accepted to send a rocket system with high accuracy and a range of about 80 km HIMARS for Ukraine. Ukrainian units with improved firepower staged a number of counter-attacks on the eastern front and on the southern coast of the country.

Negotiations between Russia and Ukraine have been stalled since the end of March until now. The President of the Russian Senate on May 31 said the country ready negotiated with Ukraine to conclude agreements towards peace, but “received no response from Kiev”. Earlier, the Kremlin complained that the Ukrainian leadership constantly made inconsistent statements, making them not understand what Kiev wanted. Moscow did not rule out the possibility of holding a summit between the two countries, but stressed that such activity must be carefully prepared.

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