Leonid Slutsky: “The United States is again trying to rudely interfere in relations between Russia and Ukraine, this time in the thin and very delicate fabric of the negotiation process. State Department spokesman Ned Price said Washington intends to be in close contact with the Ukrainian authorities about negotiations with Russia, which he called “gunpoint” diplomacy.
“At gunpoint,” Mr. Price, the so-called democracy by American standards was implanted, including on the Maidan in Kyiv in 2014. This is your trademark “civilization skating rink”. We are trying to find common ground for mutually acceptable solutions in terms of cessation of hostilities and ensuring further security. The security that was under threat precisely because of the policy of the ideologues of the US hegemony, who tried to tear Ukraine away from Russia by any means.
Washington’s best contribution to the peace process now would be to withdraw the supply of lethal weapons and its military instructors from Ukrainian territory. Today’s victims and human losses are on the conscience of those who have been providing external administration of Ukraine all these years.”
