zelensky says russia-ukraine conflict is "close to end", kremlin responds
2024-09-25
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according to reports from the russia today (rt) website and tass on the 24th, russian presidential press secretary and kremlin spokesman peskov told reporters on the same day that when russia achieves all the goals of the "special military operation", the conflict between russia and ukraine will end.
russian president's press secretary peskov source: tass
the report said peskov was commenting on ukrainian president zelensky's recent predictions about the russian-ukrainian conflict. according to abc on the 24th, zelensky said in an interview with his show that he believed the conflict was "closer to the end" than many people thought, and called on allies to help strengthen ukraine's military.
zelensky also said that he was promoting his "victory plan" during his visit to the united states, and that the plan had "nothing to do with negotiations with russia" and that its purpose was to "strengthen ukraine, the ukrainian army and the ukrainian people." he also said that only in a "strong position" could ukraine push russia to "stop the war."
in this regard, peskov commented that "any war will end peacefully in some way." he stressed that "for us (russia), there is absolutely no other choice but to achieve the established goals. once these goals are achieved in one way or another, the special military operation will be completed."
the british sunday times previously reported that zelensky’s "victory plan" may involve four main contents, namely, the west provides ukraine with security guarantees similar to nato's collective defense principle; ukraine continues to advance its military operations in russia's kursk oblast as a key bargaining chip in negotiations with russia; western countries provide ukraine with "specific" weapons and equipment; and ukraine obtains international financial assistance.
when asked by reporters about zelensky's "victory plan" on the 23rd, peskov said that the russian side believes that "it is impossible to make any analysis based solely on media reports... if there is some information coming from official sources, we will of course study it carefully." he explained that there is currently a lack of reliable information about the plan, and the russian side is "cautious" about information related to zelensky's "victory plan" because "there is a lot of different information about the plan, including contradictory and unreliable information."
russia's first deputy permanent representative to the united nations dmitry polyansky said on the same day that russia did not know the content of zelensky's "victory plan" and had not been invited to participate in relevant discussions.
