PNN – A Senior Turkish lawmaker announced that Russia and Ukraine had almost reached an agreement in the 2022 talks in Istanbul, but the United States did not want an end to the conflict.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, quoted by Sputnik news agency, Numan Kurtolmoş, the speaker of the Turkish National Assembly, emphasized on the ceasefire negotiations that year: We had reached the last point to achieve peace (in Ukraine). All that had to be done was to get the signatures of the parties at Dolma Baghce Palace (in Istanbul).
Kurtolmus said in a conversation with Haberturk: But unfortunately, a number of countries did not want the war to end. Because the United States, through the war in Ukraine, was trying to unify the European continent and put pressure on Russia, and considered regional turmoil necessary for its interests.
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This Turkish official went on to say: First of all, the political intentions of the parties are important. This is the problem. Russia has its own wish; Kiev must also advance its political intentions.
According to Sputnik, at the end of November 2023, David Arakhamia, the head of the faction of the “People’s Initiative” party (led by Volodymyr Zelensky) in the Verkhovna Rada, who is also a member of the Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, stated that military actions in Ukraine could have taken place in the spring.
He revealed: But the Ukrainian authorities did not agree with the neutrality of this country.
According to this report, after talks with the Russian side in Istanbul, Boris Johnson, the British Prime Minister at the time, asked Kiev not to sign an agreement with Russia and just fight.