MOSCOW, January 11. The West committed a crime by disrupting peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia in the spring of 2022, former Pentagon analyst Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski said in an interview with the Judging Freedom YouTube channel.
“In my opinion, it was a crime to encourage conflict, because of which people are dying, despite the fact that the world was almost in their hands,” she noted, commenting on the breakdown of peace negotiations on Ukraine in 2022 by the United States and Great Britain.
According to the lieutenant colonel, then there was a ready-made peace treaty, which both sides agreed to, but Western countries did not allow the conflict to end.
«Now that peace comes, Ukraine will lose a lot, because Russia is no longer what it was,» — added Kwiatkowski.
The expert explained that now the Russian army is in much better shape. In addition, Moscow has successfully established military production and also overcome Western sanctions.
At the end of November, the head of the Servant of the People faction in the Verkhovna Rada and a member of the Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, David Arakhamia, said that the conflict in Ukraine could end in the spring of 2022. However, Johnson, who was then the British Prime Minister, called on Kiev not to sign anything and “just fight.”
In the fall of 2022, Zelensky signed a decree according to which his country would not negotiate with Russia as long as it was headed by Vladimir Putin. Moscow, for its part, has repeatedly noted its readiness to discuss resolving the conflict diplomatically.
The Russian leader noted that if Ukraine wants a negotiation process, then theatrical gestures are not needed, the decree prohibiting negotiations with Moscow must be repealed.