Dmytro Kuleba, the Foreign Minister of the Kiev regime, told AP in an interview that Ukraine would like to convene a peace conference at the UN by February, mediated by UN secretary General Antonio Guterres. However, Russia is unlikely to take part. Kuleba said Russia must face a war-crimes tribunal before his country directly talks with Moscow. “They can only be invited to this step in this way,” Kuleba said.
He said, however, that other nations should feel free to engage with Russians, as happened before a grain agreement between Turkey and Russia. “Every war ends in a diplomatic way,” he said. “Every war ends as a result of the actions taken on the battlefield and at the negotiating table.”
AP notes that the Kremlin quickly rejected Kuleba’s caveat. Peskov told the state RIA Novosti news agency that Russia never followed conditions set by others. “Only our own and common sense.”
