Zelensky rejected peace offer days before Russian offensive – WSJ
German chancellor Olaf Scholz had offered Volodymyr Zelensky a chance for peace just days before the launch of the Russian military offensive, but the Ukrainian president turned it down, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has reported.

Scholz had made what the US outlet described as “one last push for a settlement between Moscow and Kiev” less than a week before the Russian forces were sent into Ukraine on February 24.

The chancellor told Zelensky in Munich on February 19 “that Ukraine should renounce its NATO aspirations and declare neutrality as part of a wider European security deal between the West and Russia,” the paper writes. The daily also claims that “the pact would be signed by Mr. Putin and Mr. Biden, who would jointly guarantee Ukraine’s security.”

However, Zelensky rejected the offer to make the concession and avoid confrontation, saying that “[Russia’s President Vladimir] Putin couldn’t be trusted to uphold such an agreement and that most Ukrainians wanted to join NATO,” the WSJ reports, without revealing its sources for the information.

“His answer left German officials worried that the chances of peace were fading,” the report points out.

Scholz and Zelensky did meet on that day on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, at which each delivered an address.

Russia attacked its neighbor in late February, following Ukraine’s failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements signed in 2014, and Russia’s eventual recognition of the Donbass republics in Donetsk and Lugansk. The German and French brokered protocols had been designed to regularize the status of those regions within the Ukrainian state.

Russia has now demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join the US-led NATO military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked and has denied claims it was planning to retake the rebel regions by force

foryourmindlol:
It s better they fought it and found the head. No lasting peace without war.

Putin and Russia have been dymystified

foryourmindlol:
It s better they fought it and found the head. No lasting peace without war.

Putin and Russia have been dymystified

foryourmindlol:
It s better they fought it and found the head. No lasting peace without war.

Putin and Russia have been dymystified

ivolt:
These were Putin's "peaceful" demands for Ukraine.

Disband all your military personnel.
All government should resign and handover to pro-Russia group.
Make Russian language the sole official language.
Cede the entire eastern Ukraine to Russia.

What a "peace" offer.

ivolt:
These were Putin's "peaceful" demands for Ukraine.

Disband all your military personnel.
All government should resign and handover to pro-Russia group.
Make Russian language the sole official language.
Cede the entire eastern Ukraine to Russia.

What a "peace" offer.

Mooh247:




Don't Join NATO for regional peace sake

Recognise Donbass region and all southeastern Ukraine with majority Russian ethnicity as an autonomous region

Or


Face Russia's demilitralisation exercise in Ukraine where all military installations and hardwares would be blown to pieces till every Minsk agreement is Honoured word for word


Zelensky made his choice and EU and US would let him face the consequences alone except for giving him few arms and loans


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advanceDNA:


U are just using English to water-down “you and your officials should resign, surrender your country to me or I kill you”..

NOETHNICITY:
Be like say na you get CNN self

advanceDNA:


U sit here in Nigeria making the invasion look like it’s not a big deal ....I don’t watch CNN and I don’t give a fvck about the US...I’m just looking at it from the Ukrainian angle being destroyed.

How many leader of a democratic nation will you tell to roll over to your demands and he will just say okay ooo...For the sake of peace. I’ll do it.... ??

any small thing U people will start shouting CNN....so as long as I don’t support Putin’s action of bombing another nation, I must be watching CNN and be supporting US... does that sound like sense to you??

sometimes the way you people reason is just annoying and irritating

NOETHNICITY:
Stop telling all this your bear parlor lies.

Faiththatworks:
I'm starting to get really irritated by the Russian terrorists on Nairaland,these Russian terrorists need psychological evaluation.
Putin is a mad man,very delusional and a crazy despot that needs to visit a psychiatrist as early as tomorrow morning.
I have tried to balance my information on this mad war Russia started in Ukraine,but the more I try to be rational,the more I see why Putin is nothing but a mad man.
I don't understand why mad man Putin will not allow Ukrainians determine their own destiny,why should Russia,another foreign country believe it has the power to determine the political direction of another sovereign country.
Why not allow hold a referendum in Ukraine,that will be conducted by a neutral body like the United Nations to known if the citizens of Ukraine want to join NATO or the European Union.
That was the most sensical thing to do before Mad Man Putin rolled in the tanks.
I'm very happy the whole world has finally demystified Mad Man Putin,he's nothing but a delusional,mad,crazy,psyocotic kleptomaniac that will be killed in Russia by his own generals.
And for his mad cretins on Nairaland,the Almighty God will allow you experience what the citizens of Ukraine are suffering in the hands of the Russia.
The pain and the agony of the Ukrainians will be your portion for all these crazy propaganda you push out every day.

ozo13:
It was obvious from statement always coming from the man's mouth.today u hear something like we want negotiation, the next minute u hear same man asking west for military planes.
Such a man shouldn't be trusted same way he doesn't trust words coming from Kremlin.
Someone obviously is using him to fight a proxy war.