Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
| Yep — those Jewish Nazis are something else. See Politico article below. |
Frankly speaking, Lavrov's answer pleased me pleasantly.
1. Russia is immediately ready to start negotiations after the Armed Forces of Ukraine lay down their arms.
2. Ukraine is waiting for demilitarization.
3. Ukraine is waiting for denazification.
4. Russia will no longer allow the Nazis to rule Ukraine.
That's literally all true. Too bad it's eight years later. But nonetheless. I would have subscribed to this in 2014, and I will subscribe now, especially in the issue of denazification.
Until there is readiness to comply with the demands of Russia, the fighting against the Nazi regime will continue, but judging by what is happening in Kyiv and the surrounding area (from the west, Russian special forces and armored vehicles are already very close), there is not so long left.
As for Zelensky's willingness to negotiate, Lavrov said that Zelensky was lying and he had already missed the opportunity for negotiations.
They will negotiate with the new representative democratic government of Ukraine (that is, with other people).
That is, the ultimate goal is to change the regime in Ukraine and turn Ukraine into something more adequate than it has been for the past 8 years.
Ukraine’s Jewish President Zelenskiy asks Putin: ‘How could I be a Nazi?’
[Politico] Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...on Thursday declared war on Ukraine and pledged to oversee a "demilitarization and de-Nazification" of the country — which is led by a Jewish president.
Hours before Putin’s televised address, Volodymyr Zelenskiy had delivered his own final, powerful but ultimately fruitless plea for peace, in which he pushed back at Putin’s unfounded accusations that Ukraine was being run by Nazis.
Addressing the Russian public directly and in Russian, his native language, Zelenskiy said: "The Ukraine on your news and Ukraine in real life are two completely different countries — and the main difference between them is: Ours is real. You are told we are Nazis. But could a people who lost more than 8 million lives in the battle against Nazism support Nazism?"
After a pregnant pause, Zelenskiy, who is Jewish — though he did not explicitly say that in the video — added: "How can I be a Nazi? Explain it to my grandfather, who went through the entire war in the infantry of the Soviet army, and died a colonel in an independent Ukraine."
The Ukrainian president has said that three of his grandfather’s brothers were killed in the Holocaust.