Ulyanov urged the West to return to more realistic assessments on Ukraine

The permanent representative of the Russian Federation to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, has called on Western officials to return to more realistic assessments of the prospects for peace talks on the conflict in Ukraine. He wrote about this on September 7 in his Telegram channel.

"Some Western officials are making rather strange statements regarding peace talks on Ukraine 'from a position of strength'. They are apparently not oriented in modern realities. Like in kindergarten, sorry. They need to return to more realistic assessments," Ulyanov said.

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Earlier, on December 6, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that Ukraine had made a mistake by abandoning a peaceful settlement of the conflict with Russia in 2022 under pressure from the United States and Britain.

On the same day, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said that the conflict in Ukraine can be resolved only when all major powers demonstrate positive energy. He also noted that it was necessary to create conditions for resuming direct talks between Russia and Ukraine, adding that China has always considered dialog and negotiations the only possible way to resolve the crisis.

Before that, on December 5, Bloomberg wrote that NATO had shifted its attention from the plan to secure Ukraine's victory to ensuring that the country is in the best possible position in possible negotiations on the conflict settlement. It was specified that Kiev's Western allies were looking for a way to stop the fighting in a way that would "protect Ukraine without provoking Russia". They also reported that NATO foreign ministers at a meeting in Brussels on December 3 and 4 focused on the issue of increased supplies to Ukraine, while their governments began to consider various negotiation scenarios.

However, The New York Times reported on Dec. 3 that NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte urged the Ukrainian leadership to postpone talks with Russia until more military aid is received to allow Kiev to engage in dialog "on strong positions." The next day, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted in a conversation with Izvestia that there were no grounds for negotiations.

Russian President Vladimir Putin named the conditions for negotiations on Ukraine at a meeting with the leadership of the Russian Foreign Ministry back in June. Thus, Ukrainian troops should leave the territories of the new regions of the Russian Federation, and Kiev should give up the idea of NATO integration.

The last round of negotiations took place in Istanbul on March 29, 2022. They lasted about three hours. Later, Kiev officially refused contacts with Moscow.

The special operation to protect Donbass, the start of which Putin announced on February 24, 2022, continues. The decision was taken against the backdrop of the worsening situation in the region.