Negotiations are tool of war for Putin - Ukrainian diplomat

He expressed this opinion in an interview with Anton Borkovskyi, host of the Studio West program.

"For Russia, Moscow, and especially for this rashist Fuhrer, negotiations are an instrument of war, not a tool for reconciliation. It is a tool of war, so achieving any pause, and God forbid, a retreat from sanctions, will be a clear victory for him. That's why he is playing this record. Hence any dialogue in the current situation, not talks about it, because talks are for the unconscious and ignorant who may bite, because it is like bait for fish, so these are not talks about negotiations, not about making a decision, but talks as an instrument of war," the diplomat emphasized.

According to him, Putin will always have these conversations, fooling both his own and others' heads. But we already realize that there will be absolutely no benefit from this. However, there are still those in Europe who believe in this, but there are also those who have already realized this.

"Second. Let's imagine today that all these 15 packages of US sanctions will take more than a century to clear up. There is no reversal of this process, not in any way militarily. Now this complex, these armed forces, this system that has already been set up, will not go back. Because billions of turnover are involved today: business, finance, resources. Moreover, the Russian economy today is built on the basis of the military-industrial complex. If you remove these inflated, artificial figures of so-called growth from the military-industrial complex, that's it, there is no economy there, no economy. It is now based on the military-industrial complex, hence there is no turning back in Russia," Roman Bezsmertnyi summarized.

• On June 14, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin said that the Ukrainian military should allegedly withdraw from the temporarily occupied territories in order to negotiate with Russia. NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg and the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry commented. 
• German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that Putin's proposals to start so-called peace talks with Ukraine are not serious.