Russian President Vladimir Putin is putting forward ideas about revising Europe’s security order and, according to Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, imagines himself at the 1945 Yalta Conference. However, for proposals on that scale, Russia would first need to win a world war.
Sybiha wrote about this on the social network X.
“The problem is that for proposals on that scale, you first need to win a world war,” the minister noted.
He remarked ironically that Russia spent four years and eight months “almost capturing” Mala Tokmachka in Zaporizhzhia Region.
According to Sybiha, Russia has lost more than 1.6 million troops killed and wounded but has not achieved a single objective of its invasion. In October, Russian forces lost 54,400 occupiers, while Ukraine liberated more territory than Russia managed to seize.
“At this stage, Putin can negotiate at most a fair ceasefire along the current line of contact, not spheres of influence in Europe,” the foreign minister stressed.
He also said that Europe does not need a new security order, because there is already an existing system that Russia constantly violates.
“Frankly, Europe does not need a new security order. It already has one, which Russia constantly violates. The best plan for a safe and free Europe is to stop Russia’s aggression against Ukraine,” Sybiha concluded.
- According to the NYT, during closed-door talks with US representatives on ending the war against Ukraine, Putin once again demanded that NATO troops be withdrawn to their 1997 positions. This refers to returning the Alliance’s forces and military bases to the borders that existed before its eastward enlargement.