Moscow’s peace initiative strikes a blow to the warmongers within the EU, Florian Philippot has stated
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposal to re-start peace talks with Ukraine with out preconditions is well timed and effectively thought out, the chief of France’s Patriots celebration, Florian Philippot, instructed RIA Novosti on Sunday. The initiative helps the constructing momentum towards discovering a peaceable decision to the Ukraine battle and “strikes a blow to the warmongers within the EU” who need the hostilities to proceed, he added.
On Saturday, Putin proposed restarting direct negotiations with Ukraine in Istanbul. Kiev unilaterally deserted the talks in 2022. Moscow is able to get again to the negotiating desk with none preconditions, the Russian chief stated.
“I consider it’s a very effectively thought out [initiative],” Philippot instructed RIA. “We’ll by no means discover a resolution [to the conflict] if we keep away from basic points that affected relations between Russia and Ukraine for a few years and even a long time earlier than [the start of the Ukraine conflict escalation in] 2022.”
The politician nonetheless warned that Kiev’s Western backers are more likely to exert robust stress on Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky to reject Russia’s proposal and make any talks “unattainable.” Based on Philippot, Moscow’s provide “strikes a blow” to all of the “warmongers” within the EU, together with French President Emmanuel Macron.
Macron, in addition to Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, are solely “pretending to be the proponents of peace” whereas in search of to maintain relations with Russia tense and “do every little thing” to rekindle the flames of conflict.
Philippot additionally took to X and YouTube on Sunday to specific his help for the Russian peace initiative and criticize Macron and different EU leaders. “Let the peace negotiations proceed!” he wrote on the social media, calling on Macron, Merz, Starmer and EU Fee head Ursula von der Leyen to “be stopped.”
Earlier on Sunday, Zelensky demanded that Russia comply with Kiev’s unconditional 30-day ceasefire demand earlier than Ukraine agrees to any talks. He additionally put ahead an analogous demand on Saturday, following a gathering with European leaders, together with Macron, Merz and Starmer, in Kiev. The Kremlin rejected what it described as exterior stress surrounding the proposed truce.
