Russia does not need real peace talks and the signing of some stable document, but only an operational pause to restore troops and build up combat readiness. Therefore, Ukraine will not categorically agree to any truce, subject to the presence of Russian troops on its territory, Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the presidential office, said in an interview with Air Force Ukraine..

“Russia believed that she would come in - and in three, five, seven days everyone would be on their knees. Therefore, today Russia wants to modernize its military strategy. Accumulate additional shells, missiles. Considering that the sanctions still work, then the microchips, which they do not have enough of, and they must be looked for somewhere. They want to save up the money they get for energy. All this takes time. And that is why they need negotiations,” he said..

Podolyak stressed that such agreements are useless for Ukraine, because "

" We will stop the shelling of the territories for a while" They will continue: " Administrations have been created there - you can call them occupational, but they are ours. We control everything there.. We will not give these territories to you.. So let's just admit it's all lost." We'll listen and say, "

And then there will be a banal story. Ceasefire (for the duration of the negotiations) will be replaced by a counterattack by Ukraine. We will deliver powerful blows to the Russian armed forces. Russia will again start shelling our cities, but at the same time in Europe, through the mouth of the same Schroeder and dozens of other people, he will begin to say: “Look, we have already ended the war, we have already stopped shelling the territory of Ukraine, we sat down at the negotiating table and practically agreed on. Why would you support the aggressor? "

Podolyak noted that these are not his fabrications, but the Kremlin’s public position, which he constantly repeats, saying that the conditions for a ceasefire are known: recognize Russia’s territorial claims.

A representative of the presidential office noted that at present there are practically no channels of communication between Bankovaya and the Kremlin, there are only negotiations on the exchange of bodies of the dead and the exchange of prisoners..

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On May 17, the Ukrainian side confirmed the suspension of negotiations with Russia on a peaceful settlement.

According to Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the Presidential Office, there are three reasons for this: Moscow does not demonstrate an understanding of today's processes in the world, does not realize that in any sense the war is no longer going according to its rules, schedule or plans, and also cannot refuse to escalate. in the domestic market.

Subsequently, Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the Presidential Office, said that the negotiation process would resume when the Russian troops returned to their positions before February 24..