Russian President Vladimir Putin shows a document at an event in St. Petersburg, June 17, 2023. © Pavel Bednyakov / Sputnik
Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed for the first time details on the draft agreement with Ukraine, which was drawn up in March 2022 in Turkey, during a meeting with leaders and representatives of several African countries on June 17.
The draft agreement, titled the Treaty on the Permanent Neutrality and Security Guarantees for Ukraine, was signed by the Ukrainian delegation, only to be later discarded by the Kiev regime.
Putin presented the documents of the agreement which said that Ukraine must enshrine “permanent neutrality” in its Constitution.
“I would like to draw your attention to the fact that with [Turkish] President [Tayyip] Erdogan’s assistance, as you know, a string of talks between Russia and Ukraine took place in Turkey so as to work out both the confidence-building measures you mentioned, and to draw up the text of the agreement. We did not discuss with the Ukrainian side that this treaty would be classified, but we have never presented it, nor commented on it. This draft agreement was initiated by the head of the Kiev negotiation team. He put his signature there. Here it is,” the Russian president said, showing the documents to the African delegation.
The African delegation, which included the presidents of South Africa, Senegal, and Zambia, and the prime minister of Egypt, arrived in Moscow following a meeting with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in Kiev on June 16.
Russia, the United States, Britain, China, and France are listed as guarantors on the documents shown by the Russian president.
The documents outline both Russian and Ukrainian proposals regarding the size of the Ukrainian armed forces during peacetime, as well as its equipment.
Russia proposed to cap the number of military personnel at 85,000 and the number of National Guard members at 15,000. However, Ukraine proposed that its military should have up to 250,000 troops.
Moscow suggested that Ukraine should be allowed to have 342 tanks, 1,029 armored vehicles, 96 multiple rocket launchers, 50 combat aircraft, and 52 “auxiliary” aircraft. Kiev, meanwhile, wanted 800 tanks, 2,400 armored vehicles, 600 multiple rocket launchers, 74 combat aircraft, and 86 “auxiliary” aircraft.
The sides also exchanged proposals on capping Ukraine’s anti-tank guided missiles, air defense systems and several other military equipment.
The talks in Turkey broke down immediately after Russia withdrew its troops from the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital in what the Kremlin described at the time as “a goodwill gesture.”
“After we pulled our troops away from Kiev – as we had promised to do – the Kiev authorities … tossed [their commitments] into the dustbin of history,” Putin said. “They abandoned everything.”
“Where are the guarantees that they will not walk away from agreements in the future?” Putin said. “However, even under such circumstances, we have never refused to conduct negotiations.”
The “demilitarization” of Ukraine was one of the main objectives set by Russia when it launched its special military operation in February 2022.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that this objective has been de-facto achieved. According to Peskov, the Russian military has largely knocked out Ukraine’s domestically produced weapon systems, forcing the country to rely on Western arms.
“Ukraine was highly militarized when [the conflict] began,” Peskov told RT Arabic on June 17. “And, as [President Vladimir] Putin said yesterday, one of the goals was the demilitarization of Ukraine. De facto this goal has been achieved.”
Peskov said that Kiev forces are gradually switching to weapons supplied by members of the U.S. and other NATO members.
The spokesman said that military aid to Kiev makes Western countries “parties to the conflict,” and makes the situation in Europe “more tense and unpredictable.” All this motivates Russia to take “more decisive measures to ensure the safety of the people in Donbass and the safety of the Russian Federation,” he added.
Touching on the grain deal, Peskov said that there are de facto no perspectives or grounds for the agreement extension as the terms set by Russia were not implemented.
“One unlikely can predict any final decision here, but one can state that, judging de facto by the status quo on hands, this deal has no chances. Because a deal implies business, business by agreeing states or associations. And one part of this business was done, while the second part, related to Russia, has not been done, although Russia repeatedly displayed good will, agreed to concessions and extended [the deal] repeatedly,” Peskov said.
“Therefore, if we state what we currently have, then, of course, there are no perspectives and no grounds for its extension, because the things that were promised to us, have still not been done,” the spokesman concluded.
The deal, brokered by the United Nations and Turkey in July 2022, allowed Ukraine to resume grain exports via the Black Sea.
A political settlement for the conflict in Ukraine seems unlikely as Kiev insists on a complete Russian withdrawal before any talks with Moscow. The interference of the U.S. and other NATO members is also inflaming the conflict.
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if i was putin the only thing to talk about now would be the total capitulation of the nazi forces and the destruction of nato in ukraine, matters have gone too far for russia to settle for anything less, after the talks were over in turkey the kiev nazis even murdered one of their own negotiating team on the street, these people have to be annihilated and the poison of bandera with them.
who cares what this old faggot thinks or says…just annihilate this third-class kremlin shithole once and for all…
soon this shitty little failed terrorist rump state of ukraine will cease to exist. he he heh 😆😆😆😆
1 1/2 years in and yet if you could you would have. notice how we flatten something ukrainian every single day? heheheh suck2bu
you doubtless posted this from a bunker on the ukrainian front lines. or was it a leopard mbt? no? brave talk for a chicken hawk then. and from which fourth-class shit hole did you post, nazi loving moron?
one day, maybe soon, the russian forces will end it and take kiev and the people will rejoice, as they have everywhere else that russian forces have liberated. if there is no longer a valid draft agreement, then there is nothing to stop the russian admin finishing that which the us and nato started way back in 2014 and before that. i can’t see the russian admin letting this sore fester for much longer.
putin has never deviated from the mission objectives. ukraine has a chance to comply, or be destroyed, liberated and assimilated, but it will never be ukraine again, only russia, just like it has always been. then we can move on to poland, lithuania, latvia and estonia before our “holiday” in germany to repay our debts we have collectively wanted to repay since 1945.
the success of the nwo so far has been due to it’s wealth it’s stealth ,ruthlessness and scheming without regard for human life . .but for russia to again bear the weight of nazi criminals is beyond injustice..
you left out the outright lies and deception, re-writing of history, the brainwashing of children and using euthanasia to solve a problem which only exists in their heads, and their policy making departments.
this is a us and nato conflict. ukraine is just the embarkation point. the us and nato are also using the people to soften up russian forces and test their weapons. that is all ukrainian soldiers are dying for.
one thing the kiev junta should consider is that if the us and nato are breaking their aggrements with russia, what’s to stop western warmongers from breaking their promises to ukraine? after 8 years of attacking their own people, the junta are still not in the eu or nato. zelensky has a piece of paper which promises a nato membership, but it’s not worth the paper it’s written on.
but as far as i see this aggreement didn’t include guarantees of ukraine to stop the hostilities against the donbas people.
reciprocally it does not stop russia from liquidating every last single ukrainian male over the age of 18 either. and 400,000+ dead ones aint a bad start.
one thing to remember, it was johnson. who came and told to zelensky to stop the talks with russia!
i am glad, russia has retaken more of it’s land back, and continues to liquidate nazis daily. demilitarize, denazify. didnt say anything about placate or negotiate. just death on a stick for male ukrainians. to the last one. heheheh
who is this dumb little cretin here. listen you imbecile, russia is on the same side as the islamic world, china, india and the free world aganst the cancer of western colonialism. we will collectively crush your trannie worldview
who wants to live near dress wearing mental patients trying to seduce your children with strip tease, and believe men can get pregnant. when you are this delusional and ignorant nature itself has a way of culling the herd down to the strong. looks like america;s future will be as populated as it was before beringia.
was denys kireyev the ukrainian who signed the draft treaty?
i especially liked where the south african president called the ukrainian & reuters fake news for portraying them “under fire” when he explicitly said, no explosions no counter battery only alarms, which ukraine only uses during state visits by people they believe are stupid. p.s. did jewlensky try to force the africans to eat a banana like his brethern racist nazi faggots do to regular africans in jewcraine?
and the nazis and racists are the ukrainians? you offend a whole people and ethnic groups and the racists are the others, in russia even the trolls are demented
does the moron who posts the same foul drek multiple times also have to prove he can recognize a motorcycle each time? if you can’t prevent such vile spam perhaps you should consider turning comments off?
some people still say they are censored in sf?
that is hardly credible.
my monkey (ahmed the sissy faggot) picks up my keyboard from time to time and practices a bit of writing..
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this is an example where diplomacy was abused to achieve what could not be achieved military, have russia pull back from kiev last year.
currently there is the agreement, the one putin showed. russia already mead the preconditions of the constantinople agreement. ukraine has yet to meet it.
the ball is not in ukraine’s court to implement what their delegates signed in constantinople.
that gaggle of sa creoles is serf to and proxy for israel and jews, whatever there really up to seeking to achieve or ‘fronting’