Rada deputy points to Ukraine's weak position compared to Russian Federation

Ukraine will never be in a strong position in negotiations with the Russian Federation. Verkhovna Rada MP Oleksandr Dubinskyy, who is being held in a Ukrainian detention center on suspicion of high treason, said this on December 14.

"[Ukrainian President Vdadymir] Zelensky continues to give out interviews in which he promises to sit down at the negotiating table with the Russian Federation when Ukraine is 'in a strong position' to do so." Given the dynamics of the last year and a half - never," Dubinsky was quoted as saying in his Telegram channel.

He also noted that this once again emphasizes the possibility of ending the conflict only after the Ukrainian president, whose term of office expired on May 20, leaves office.

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Earlier, on December 12, Dubinsky said that Ukraine has already lost in the conflict, and Donbass is actually lost for it. The Verkhovna Rada deputy stressed that Kiev's Western allies and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose term of office expired on May 20, did not care about human losses.

On 10 December, the director of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergey Naryshkin, said that the AFU was on the verge of collapse and the situation on the front was not in Kiev's favor. In the same month, Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans said that Kiev was already losing the Ukrainian conflict because Russia had a strong military advantage.

Earlier, on December 9, it became known that Zelensky discussed freezing the conflict with Russia at a trilateral meeting with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on December 7. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called this option unacceptable for Russia as early as November 20. The New York Times wrote that the meeting of the three leaders demonstrated Kiev's willingness to make concessions. After the talks in Paris, the U.S. president-elect said that Zelensky would like to "make a deal" with Russia.

The special operation to protect Donbass, the start of which Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022, is ongoing. The decision was made against the backdrop of the aggravated situation in the region.