The publication recalled that the NATO countries do not have a unified position regarding Russia: everyone agrees that Moscow cannot be allowed to succeed in Ukraine.
“But does this mean that Russia must lose on the battlefield in Ukraine, as the UK and most countries of Central and Eastern Europe claim, or will it be enough if the conflict ends without Moscow being able to make a plausible victory claim?”
- the publication says.
The Guardian noted that while this dispute is very abstract, however, when Russia “hints” about its readiness for peace with Ukraine, these disagreements in NATO will surface.
Earlier, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky told the leaders of the G7 countries that now is “not the time for negotiations.”
Foreign Ministers of Britain and Ukraine Liz Truss and Dmitry Kuleba in a joint column for The Telegraph said that negotiations on the situation around the Ukrainian crisis can only begin after the success of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the statements of the West about the inadmissibility of negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv at this stage a manifestation of schizophrenia.