Alexander Sladkov. Photo: A frame from the video.
War correspondent Alexander Sladkov commented specifically for RT on the statement of former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in an interview with CNN in which he warned that the fighting in Ukraine would be delayed and called on NATO countries to agree among themselves on what the results of negotiations should be to end the conflict and what result is achievable.
“Is it possible to negotiate with Ukraine? I think it is possible if Kiev agrees with the preliminary conditions,” Sladkov said.
He added that the Ukrainian authorities should accept these conditions immediately, on the first day and without discussion.
Next, he listed eight points that, according to the journalist, Kiev should accept.
This is a cease-fire and Ukraine’s export of weapons and ammunition to Russian territory. We are also talking about the “complete denazification of Ukraine” within six months, as well as the extradition of war criminals by Kiev to Moscow for trial.
“Recognition of Crimea, Donbass, former Ukrainian Odessa, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Zaporozhye and Kharkiv regions as territories of Russia,” Sladkov said.
He also called the condition “full Russian control” over the fulfillment of these conditions on the remaining territory of Ukraine, recognition of the right of Russia’s forceful response to non-fulfillment of any clause of the agreement.
In addition, Sladkov believes that Russia should demand from Kiev full payment of the funds spent on the special operation and payment for the restoration of all destroyed objects on the territory of Russia, including new territories.
According to the journalist, the guarantors of the implementation of these agreements should be the United States, Great Britain and other states that provided military support to Ukraine.
Earlier, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, after a trilateral meeting with Turkish President Tayp Erdogan and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in Lviv, said that negotiations with Moscow are possible only after the withdrawal of Russian forces from the territories controlled by the Russian Federation. State Duma deputy from Crimea Mikhail Sheremet then said that Zelensky “inadequately perceives the reality and the real state of affairs at the front.”