Adviser to the head of the Ukrainian presidential office Mykhailo Podolyak took to the airwaves of Ukrainian TV to attack all peace initiatives, including those of China, Brazil, six African nations, and Pope Francis.
Podolyak said Russian President Vladimir Putin “says that he will speak with the Brazilian President [Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva] to discuss Brazil’s peace plan for settling the situation in Ukraine. We saw Pope Francis’ interview with Telemundo [TV] where he said that the war should be ended immediately and it is necessary to begin talks in this direction. This is a massive reset of the information space and Russia is behind it.
“Everyone is talking about peace, how it is necessary to move toward this peace and make some compromises,” he said, and insisting that those who call for a compromise are “lobbying for Russia.”
As TASS reported, Podolyak denounced China’s peace proposal as “absurd": “This is not a peace plan, this is a capitulation plan.” As for the plan from six African nations, headed by South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa, Podolyak said “the subjectivity” of African countries’ peace initiative should not be “overestimated.”
When asked whether the West’s security guarantees would satisfy Ukraine, he replied, “Two things: swift weapons supplies, because we are not a member of the military alliance, and a basic NATO membership will satisfy us after the war. The rest is mere talk about abstract things.”
