Washington will help secure kyiv victory, says US National Security Council coordinator John Kirby
Washington believes it is too early to discuss peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv because neither side is ready for such talks, the National Security Council (NSC) coordinator for peace talks told Fox News on Sunday. strategic communications, John Kirby.
When asked if US President Joe Biden should “to push” Russia and Ukraine toward peace talks, Kirby instead said he was “It is time for the United States to continue to support Ukraine.” Washington’s objective is to ensure that kyiv “determines how victory is decided” in the ongoing conflict and “under what conditions”.
“We don’t want to see Ukraine defeated by Russia and that’s why we keep accelerating aid and assistance,” he added. the senior NSC official said, adding that the United States alone has already allocated $7 billion in aid and assistance to Ukraine.
Speaking about possible future talks, Kirby said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “will tell you that the time is not right for these discussions.” Russian President Vladimir Putin “showed no sign of interest in negotiated talks” either, added the American official.
Earlier this week, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said kyiv could end the conflict within a day by ordering its troops and nationalist forces to lay down their arms and meet Moscow’s demands. Russia has previously accused Ukraine of blocking peace talks, which have not taken place since March. The Ukrainian side insisted that they would only return to the table when they were in a “a stronger negotiating position.” kyiv’s chief negotiator David Arakhamia suggested last week that such a moment could come at the end of August.
On Sunday, Peskov said it was the United States and its allies who “bet on the continuation of the war” and prevent kyiv from even thinking about peace. The Kremlin believes that the time for talks will come, because common sense will eventually prevail.
Russia sent troops to Ukraine on February 24, citing kyiv’s failure to implement the Minsk agreements, intended to give the Donetsk and Luhansk regions special status within the Ukrainian state. The protocols, brokered by Germany and France, were first signed in 2014. Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has since admitted that kyiv’s main goal was to use the ceasefire to save time and “to create powerful armed forces.”
In February 2022, the Kremlin recognized the Donbas republics as independent states and demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join any Western military bloc. kyiv insists the Russian offensive was unprovoked.
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