Ukrainian serviceman. File photoMOSCOW, June 3Russia currently cannot agree to a truce or ceasefire in Ukraine, since Kyiv does not understand such «gestures of good will» and uses them to regroup troops and prepare for new battles, Vice President of the League of Military Diplomats, Professor of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vinokurov. The last face-to-face meeting of the delegations of Russia and Ukraine took place in Istanbul on March 29. According to its results, Moscow withdrew troops from the territory of the Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy regions, motivating this step with a desire to speed up the negotiation process with Kyiv. However, the fighting in the Donbass and southern Ukraine never stopped, the negotiations switched to an online format, and later were completely frozen at the initiative of the Ukrainian side. «/>Nebenzya: The West is committing a war crime by supplying weapons to Kyiv» Diplomacy provides for the suspension of hostilities during negotiations. Initially, we tried to follow this path, abandoning the offensive in the Kiev, Sumy and Chernihiv directions. What did we get in return? The Ukrainian side used this pause to regrouping troops, replenishing the reserves of the army and nationalist units, receiving military-technical assistance from the West,» Vinokurov said. Crisis of diplomacy The expert noted that the very fact of the start of a special operation speaks of a crisis in diplomacy as an institution for resolving conflicts. At the same time, Vinokurov expressed confidence that as the situation at the front develops, the parties will inevitably return to negotiations. «Of course, the fact that the special operation has begun at all speaks of the «failure» of diplomacy. Nobody hides this anymore — the chief diplomat of the EU (Josep ) Borrell says that the outcome of the operation should be decided on the battlefield, UN Secretary General (Antonio) Guterres and US Secretary of State (Anthony) Blinken «do not see» a diplomatic solution to the conflict. However, they will inevitably «see» it when the situation develops on front», — said the source of the agency.Medvedev said that there is a «crisis of the genre» in diplomacy. Russia will achieve its goals. The military diplomat expressed confidence that by the time he returns to the negotiating table, Russia will achieve all the tasks set and will have a strong position in concluding a peace treaty. «Special operation is not a war, but in at the same time, it is an armed conflict, and any armed conflict must end with the signing of a peace treaty.Yes, the special operation is not going as fast as we would like, but I insist that it still goes according to plan, since its goals are methodically achieved,» Vinokurov said. The expert explained that his confidence in Russia's victory is reinforced by the gradual decline in interest in Ukraine among the leading European countries. According to Vinokurov, the only real beneficiary of the continuation of the fighting in Ukraine is the United States.In Crimea, they announced the breakthrough of the food blockade by Ukraine «America, unlike the countries of Europe, does not particularly lose anything, while harboring vain hopes of depleting Russia, as happened in the late 1980s with the USSR, when we could not stand the arms race, and the protracted war in Afghanistan has played its role. However, the failure of the United States in the current confrontation will be the beginning of the dismantling of the so-called «Pax Americana» and the unipolar world,» the source concluded. Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24. Russian President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as of March 25, the Armed Forces completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. Along with the Russian military, units of the DPR and LPR are operating in the region.
