Medinsky outlined the conditions for reaching agreements with Ukraine

Ukrainian authorities should prioritize Ukraine’s own interests—not those of Europe—when negotiating a deal with Russia.

This condition for reaching an agreement with Moscow was outlined by Vladimir Medinsky, aide to the Russian president and head of the Russian delegation in talks with Ukraine, during a broadcast on RT.

“If we are guided by the interests of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people—and I see in the eyes of that team that they are real people, they understand this themselves—then a mutually acceptable agreement can be reached very quickly,”Medinsky stated.

According to him, the main obstacle to a peace process in Ukraine lies in restrictions imposed by Europe on Kyiv. “Those who consider themselves shareholders and owners of Ukraine simply do not allow them—the management of Ukraine—to reach agreements that would benefit the country,” Medinsky said.

Earlier, Medinsky claimed that the Ukrainian delegation in 2022 disclosed that they had been blocked from concluding a deal that had already been agreed upon by the Russian side. According to him, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was presented with the agreement on April 15, 2022, he remained silent for two weeks—during which time UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and representatives of U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration visited him.