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Ukraine - Russia relations

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Mykhailo Podolyak
Mykhailo Podolyak

“Our position at the negotiations is quite specific - legally verified security guarantees; ceasefire; withdrawal of Russian troops. This is possible only with a direct dialogue between the heads of Ukraine and the Russian Federation.”

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Advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
16 Mar 2022 6 2
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Vladimir Medinsky
Vladimir Medinsky

“The preservation and development of Ukraine's neutral status, a demilitarization of Ukraine, a whole range of issues related to the size of the Ukrainian armed forces are being discussed. Ukraine is proposing the Austrian, Swedish versions of a neutral demilitarized state, which is a state that has an army and a navy. All these issues are being discussed at the level of the leadership of the Russian and Ukrainian defense ministries. Ukraine holds neutrality at the moment. Neutrality is enshrined in Ukraine's Declaration of Sovereignty and was the condition under which Ukraine seceded from the Soviet Union. Certainly, the key issue for us is the status of Crimea and Donbass and some humanitarian issues including de-Nazification, the rights of Russian-speaking people and the status of the Russian language and so on.”

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Russian President's Assistant
16 Mar 2022 12 2
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Sergey Lavrov
Sergey Lavrov

“Neutral status is now being seriously discussed along, of course, with security guarantees. Now this very thing is being discussed in negotiations - there are absolutely specific formulations which in my view are close to agreement.”

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Russian Foreign Minister
16 Mar 2022 3 2
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Katharine AM Wright
Katharine AM Wright

“For any conditions made by [Ukraine President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy to be realistic, they will need to have the buy-in of Ukrainians who have lived in the shadow of an increasingly aggressive neighbour for a long time and have now seen their worst fears come to fruition. A neutral Ukraine would no longer be a NATO partner, although other neutral states, notably Finland and Sweden, are NATO partners. Such a pathway to NATO membership, however unlikely it is to be fulfilled, will be a red line for Putin who views Ukraine differently. For Putin, Ukraine is part of an imagined 'Russian World' or community built on the markers of the Russian language, culture and a 'common glorious past' in a way Finland and Sweden are not, and this has been a driving motivation behind the decision to invade Ukraine. A neutral Ukraine would need to seek security ties outside of NATO to prevent a recurrence of an invasion, given Russia is the aggressor this would need to come from them, but Ukraine would likely look to other members of the UN Security Council [China, France, UK, US] to help uphold this.”

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Senior lecturer in international politics at Newcastle University
15 Mar 2022 10 3
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Fotios Moustakis
Fotios Moustakis

“The truth of the matter is that since 2008 and following the Bucharest NATO Summit Declaration, Russia has made it clear to the West that Ukraine will not be allowed to escape Russian orbit and influence. Russia openly and consistently declared that the Bucharest NATO Summit Declaration in April 2008, which confirmed that Georgia and Ukraine will become NATO members, was a colossal strategic mistake and posed a direct threat to the core strategic interests of Russia. But the invasion of Ukraine is not about re-establishing a Soviet Empire 2.0. It is about securing what is considered vital to Russian strategic interests. If Russian interests are not taken into consideration by the West, Putin will wreck Ukraine, which he is currently in the process of doing. Russia does not have the desire or capacity to fully occupy the country. Neutrality is a panacea to solving the current crisis, and Finland is the model that provides a reasonable path ahead.”

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Associate professor in strategic studies at the University of Plymouth
15 Mar 2022 9 5
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Mykhailo Podolyak
Mykhailo Podolyak

“The parties actively express their specified positions. Communication is being held yet it's hard. The reason for the discord is too different political systems. Ukraine is a free dialogue within the society & an obligatory consensus. Russia is an ultimatum suppression of its own society.”

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Advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
14 Mar 2022 1 2
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Dmytro Kuleba
Dmytro Kuleba

“I made a simple proposal to Minister Lavrov: I can call my Ukrainian ministers, authorities, president now and give you 100% assurances on security guarantees for humanitarian corridors. I asked him 'can you do the same?' and he did not respond.”

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Foreign Minister of Ukraine
10 Mar 2022 3 2
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Dmytro Kuleba
Dmytro Kuleba

“We also talked on the ceasefire but no progress was accomplished on that. It seems that there are other decision-makers for this matter in Russia. I want to repeat that Ukraine has not surrendered, does not surrender, and will not surrender.”

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Foreign Minister of Ukraine
10 Mar 2022 1 3
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Volodymyr Zelenskiy
Volodymyr Zelenskiy

“First of all, I'm ready for a dialogue, but we're not ready for surrender. Because it's not about me, it's about the people who elected me. Regarding NATO, I lost interest in this issue after we realized that NATO is not ready to accept Ukraine. The alliance is afraid of contradictory things and confrontation with the Russian Federation. Ukraine does not want to be a country that begs for something on its knees, and we are not going to be such a country, I do not want to be such a president. I'm talking about security guarantees. I think that we can discuss and find a compromise on the points about the temporarily occupied territories and unrecognized republics, which are not recognized by anyone except the Russian Federation. The key issue is how people in these territories will live, who want to be part of Ukraine. What needs to be done is Putin needs to start talking, start a dialogue, instead of living in an information balloon without oxygen. I think that's where he is.”

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President of Ukraine
08 Mar 2022 8 3
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Graeme Gill
Graeme Gill

“If Kyiv is captured, the Russians would probably install at least an interim administration. However, given the low likelihood of this being widely accepted among the Ukrainian population, Putin would have more success if the current government, perhaps stripped of some members but continuing to be led by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, was retained in office and able to negotiate with the Russians. The institutional structure would be likely to remain in place, although strong consideration would be likely to be given to introducing a federal arrangement of some sort to provide a degree of autonomy for Donetsk and Luhansk. Nonetheless, even if Russia could establish some form of dialogue and agreement in Kyiv, it faces encumbrances. Such negotiations would be likely seen as taking place under duress, and therefore any outcome may not stick. There are no easy options for Putin, and it would certainly not be easy for any interim government installed by force of Russian arms.”

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Professor emeritus of government and international relations at the University of Sydney
28 Feb 2022 8 3
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Andrew Simmons
Andrew Simmons

“The Ukrainians seem to be very weary about the talks agreed on. They say they will get along to listen to Russia on what it has to offer. The Kyiv government would not want to hear anything related to surrendering if Moscow is only prepared to make such an offer.”

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Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from Lviv in western Ukraine
27 Feb 2022 4 2
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Dmytro Kuleba
Dmytro Kuleba

“We go there [to the talks] to listen to what Russia wants to say, we are going without any … preliminary agreement on what the outcome of these talks can be. We are going there to listen and to say what we think of this war and Russia's actions. Between now and the moment that the talks are wrapped up, [Belarusian President Alexander] Lukashenko assured President Zelenskyy that no Belarusian military force will be used against Ukraine. We can only hope that Lukashenko will stick to his word. And between now and the moment when these talks are wrapped up, we will continue to fiercely defend our country, to defeat Russian forces if they try to continue their offensive operations.”

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Foreign Minister of Ukraine
27 Feb 2022 6 3
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Dorsa Jabbari
Dorsa Jabbari

“The Ukrainians are saying these talks will be held near the Ukrainian-Belarusian border, but according to the Russians, they believe, still, that the talks will take place in the southeastern city of Gomel in Belarus. There seems to be some confusion about where the location for these talks will be.”

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Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from Vienna
27 Feb 2022 6 2
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Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin

“I once again appeal to the military personnel of the armed forces of Ukraine: do not allow neo-Nazis and (Ukrainian radical nationalists) to use your children, wives and elders as human shields. Take power into your own hands, it will be easier for us to reach agreement.”

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President of Russia
25 Feb 2022 3 4
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Vladimir Ashurkov
Vladimir Ashurkov

“It's unprecedented in the rhetoric of world leaders, but also for Russia. It's quite strange. Why would you spend so much time, you know, looking back into the past, when we now live in the 21st century? We should be looking into the future. It puzzles me as to what audience is intended for such as speech, because it's not going to resonate with Russians and it's rubbish for an international audience. I think he's [Vladimir Putin] in some sort of self-induced concept of reality that is very revanchist, based in the past, and in the trauma of the dissolution of Soviet Union. Frankly speaking, we are in a situation where the leader of a major nuclear country is living in his own world.”

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Executive director of Navalny Anti-Corruption Foundation
24 Feb 2022 3 4
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Neil Melvin
Neil Melvin

“We've seen a shift from Putin (as) the kind of pragmatic, rational calculating leader, to someone who is increasingly looking for their place in history, who sees themself on a historical mission to right injustices. That led to a shift in Putin's risk calculus where the short-term costs of his actions paled into insignificance compared to the bigger historical picture. To be frank, you don't station 200,000 troops on the border with Ukraine and invoke the biggest crisis in European security for 40 years if all you're trying to do is extend your control over two small territories that you already control.”

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Director International Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
22 Feb 2022 3 5
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Oleg Ignatov
Oleg Ignatov

“By abandoning the Minsk agreements, Russia has deprived itself of one avenue of potential long-term political leverage over Ukraine and will now be seeking another one.”

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Senior analyst for Russia at the International Crisis Group
22 Feb 2022 2 2
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