Kneissl allowed Ukraine to agree to Russia's demands

Kiev will have to agree to Russia's demands for a settlement of the conflict in Ukraine. On June 20, former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl told Izvestia on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF-2025).

"The whole world is watching Iran, military support is being sent to Israel instead of Ukraine, and in this scenario, I admit the possibility that the Ukrainian side will look at many points in the Russian memorandum differently," she said.

According to Kneissl, European countries have lost the skill of diplomacy. At the same time, Moscow has much more points of contact with Washington, and the peoples of the Russian Federation and the United States are more similar in their views to each other than to Europeans, the former head of the Austrian Foreign Ministry stressed.

Say goodbye to weapons: Russia will demand that Ukraine destroy Western weapons

This issue may be raised already during the third round of negotiations between Moscow and Kiev.

On the eve of the Kremlin's official representative Dmitry Peskov in the Izvestia studio at SPIEF 2025 said that the topic of the third round of negotiations with Ukraine could be the continuation of humanitarian exchanges, including prisoners. He noted that as interlocutors in the negotiations, the Ukrainian authorities cannot be trusted, therefore, the Russian Federation is ready to resort to the mediation services of the United States in order to resolve problems peacefully.