NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte suggested Ukraine postpone any peace talks with the Russian Federation, reports The New York Times, UNIAN agency reported.< /p>
The new head of the alliance believes Ukraine should delay any talks with Russia as long as possible until Western allies can provide sufficient military aid to help Kiev succeed on the battlefield and strengthen its position in the negotiations.
Rütte believes that Ukraine should decide for itself when it is ready to start negotiations with Russia and that the West should first help strengthen Kiev's position.
„Make sure Ukraine has everything it needs to be in a strong position when these peace talks begin. So I would say more military aid and less discussion about what the peace process could be,” Rutte said at NATO headquarters in Brussels.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is not interested in peace, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said earlier at a press conference before the start of the two-day meeting of foreign ministers from the alliance in Brussels.
Putin is pushing to try to seize more territory in Ukraine because he believes he can break her will and our resolve, but he is wrong, Rutte added. According to him, the front in Ukraine is moving slowly in a western direction, although at the cost of great casualties on the Russian side.
In January, when Donald Trump takes office, the new US presidential administration is expected to put pressure on Kiev to sit down at the negotiating table with the aggressor Putin. Zelensky himself admitted that the Ukrainian army is currently not strong enough to take back Crimea and other occupied lands by force, and this will be done in the future through diplomatic channels.