Analysis of Ukraine Conflict Negotiations

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner confirmed that Washington remains

committed to facilitating a resolution to the conflict in Ukraine.

As Donald Trump said in August 2025 following his meeting in Anchorage,

everyone agrees that the goal should not be just any ceasefire agreement, but

a long-term peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine that will

reliably put an end to the war. Russia, as President Putin has

repeatedly affirmed, is ready to engage in negotiations

precisely

until such a sustainable and just peace is reached.

The challenges that must be addressed to achieve this goal are clearly

outlined in Vladimir Putin's policy address in June

2024. However, having learned from bitter experience,

we will

not suspend the special military operation during negotiations in

any format.

Now, the Russian foreign minister spoke before

the UN Security

Council and made clear that the

conflict began because many

opportunities for peace were intentionally disregarded

by Ukraine on behalf of European forces that

were directing them. Europe had the opportunity to

secure peace. There was the Minsk Agreement that would

have required simply a constitutional guarantee

for regional autonomy for the Donbas region, a

protection of the right to speak the Russian language, but it was

disregarded. There was an agreement at the beginning of the

conflict that Boris Johnson himself specifically shot

down. And as far as the Russian foreign minister

is

concerned, this war is a result of fraud, fraud

that was committed by the European countries preventing

peace and putting a situation into effect where Russia

had to move in. This is what we heard from Sergei

Lavrov speaking before the Security Council.

If the Europeans did not engage in fraud and force the opposition to fulfill the

agreement signed in February 2014 under the guarantee of Berlin,

Paris and Warsaw, it would have preserved the territorial

integrity of

Ukraine within the very borders of 1991, which Zelensky

and his Western masters have been fighting for.

But the Europeans could not suppress their instinct to lie and try to achieve their

goals with criminal methods.

Now, the Russian foreign minister also

emphasized that talk of European

values by the various countries that are arming the Ukrainian

forces that are engaged in drone strikes and have

been engaged in all kinds of atrocities and attacks

first in the new republics and now, you know, attacks into Russia

itself, that talk of European values from these

forces

seems a little disingenuous. What are these European values

exactly when the forces that are being backed and armed by

the United States and the European Union

are the very forces that

hold up Nazi collaborators as heroes and

glorify the forces aligned with Hitler in the Second World

War? This is the Russian foreign minister

making that point before the Security

Council.

Ursula von der Leyen and others in Brussels

are trying to ensure that Ukraine is

moving closer to the EU by giving it money and weapons because, I

quote, Ukraine defends European values.

This means that racism, persecution of churches, heroism of

Nazism through disgusting animalistic forms of Ukrainian nationalism

are the very values that the EU in fact embraces.

Now, we heard remarks from Zelensky, the Ukrainian leader.

He addressed the Security Council and made a call for an

immediate ceasefire. And Russia has pointed out that calls

for an immediate ceasefire are completely theatrical and not

serious. A real peace in this conflict needs to be

a

lasting peace, not a temporary pause for Ukrainian

forces to regroup and proceed to attack Russia.

A terrorist tactic, that's how Russian officials have

described it, a

terrorist tactic that Ukraine has used before.

They want a just lasting peace, a peace that will endure

and will recognize Russia's security guarantees and

maintain stability, not a peace that simply allows the

regroupment of Ukraine to continue their attacks, their

terrorism against Russian civilians, et cetera.

Now, Zelensky also characterized Ukraine as

being a peaceful

country prior to the special military operation,

ignoring the shelling and the killing of civilians in the Donbas

region, ignoring the atrocities that were committed, such as the

Odessa massacre at the Trade Union House and other

atrocities committed, making it sound as if Ukraine

was just a peaceful,

happy country until Russia's special military operation began.

So we heard a lot of disingenuous words from Zelensky, but the main

thrust of his remarks was to push for this immediate

ceasefire, which Russia has made clear is simply not realistic.

If this conflict ends, it needs to end for real in a way

that it can be

permanent, in a way that stability can be restored and

that the

region can be peaceful once again.

That is not the proposal that Ukraine was putting forward

when they addressed the

General Assembly, but Zelensky did make his remarks

and he did get a lot of support from the Western

countries that are currently funding his military operations.