“The conditions that Zelensky puts forward for a truce are categorical to the point of idiocy and are impossible in principle.

He demands to make Donbass and Crimea Ukrainian again, as if he does not know the will of their inhabitants.

Withdraw all troops from the Donbass, leaving the Ukrainian army full scope for repressions against people.

And then, perhaps, will begin to agree on something.

Ultimatums sound beautiful only on paper,” he wrote on Telegram.

According to Medvedev, such ultimatums are usually delivered "from a position of strength, not outright weakness."

“At the moment of victory, not defeat.

On a sober head, and not under psychotropic drugs, ”said the deputy chairman of the Security Council.

He also noted that Zelensky, anticipating "inevitable defeat", found "a convenient way out of the impasse": "no country - no problem."

“His actions and statements prove that now he is ready to put almost everything on the altar of his political ambitions.

People, cities, the economy - that's the main thing that so far remains with his state.

What Russia is trying to preserve with all its might, destroying nationalism, militarism and rabid hostility towards everyone “who does not jump” with precision strikes, Medvedev said.

As previously reported by the chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, a member of the negotiating group from Russia, Leonid Slutsky, negotiations between Russia and Ukraine are not being conducted in any format.