Russia wants to negotiate with U.S., not Ukraine — political scientist Mahda

He shared this opinion on Espreso TV.

‘As for the negotiations, I would like to indicate several important points. First, Russia does not want to negotiate with Ukraine. For it, negotiations with Ukraine are a recognition of our foreign policy subjectivity, and in this case, frankly, Russia will not feel very confident. I'm watching Putin speak at the United Russia gathering, talking about the so-called 'special military operation' and many other things, but I think we should look at this with the utmost criticality,’ the political analyst said.

According to him, the second such point is that Russia wants to negotiate with the United States. And accordingly, the new U.S. administration should respond to this, because negotiations with the old Biden administration are simply impossible at the moment.

‘The third is that the end of the Russian-Ukrainian war will most likely be the beginning of a negotiation process that will be associated with the creation of guarantees and arms limitation in a multipolar world. Because what was in place in the bipolar world has now been cancelled, and in fact there is only one single missile arms limitation treaty between the United States and Russia. And it's not entirely clear where China or the EU are in this equation. And we need to realize that we have to work on our own strengthening, because without strengthening Ukraine's position, we simply cannot expect any growth in foreign policy subjectivity,’ summed up Yevhen Mahda.

• On December 13, NBC reported that Trump's national security team is in talks with the administration of current U.S. leader Joe Biden and Ukrainian officials to ‘find a way’ to end the war.
• NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte warned against publicly discussing a possible peace deal between Kyiv and Moscow in order not to make Russian leader Vladimir Putin more informed.