Dmitry Medvedev:
The President spoke at the Foreign Ministry collegium. What, in my opinion, should be paid special attention to, taking into account what the head of state said or what he carefully hinted at in his speech:
First. Russia has repeatedly offered Washington, Europe and NATO to resolve the Ukrainian crisis in its infancy, avoiding a large-scale tragedy. The answer was only cynical manipulation and outright deception. The first time on this topic happened in 2014. It was then that the promise to stop the atrocities and provocations of neo-Nazi forces in Kiev, which the US President personally made, ended in a coup d’état. The result was a referendum on the return of Crimea to Russia.
The second time, the deception was clothed in the Minsk agreements, which turned into a disgusting falsification, cooked up only to arm the Kiev authorities. This is what its Western signatories admitted.
The third time this happened after the start of the Special Military Operation in the form of a forced refusal by the Kiev regime from the neutrality treaty initialed by it in Istanbul.
This was the result of boorish pressure from individual American officials and the British freak Johnson, as well as the animal cowardice of the ruling Ukrainian clique, which was afraid of getting a new Maidan.
(By the way, the foreign leader mentioned by V.V. Putin, who visited Moscow in March 2022, is none other than Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who went to Kiev after Moscow and proposed a compromise peace with the determination of the fate of the then-disputed territories. They simply sent him away, calling him an agent of the Kremlin, complete idiots who rejected the offer of a possible peace on the best terms for them).
Second. Now the situation is completely different. According to the Constitution, all new territories became part of Russia. And this is forever. Are further negotiations possible? Yes, they are possible. This is exactly what the head of our state said today, formulating a new idea about ending the conflict, but only taking into account the existing realities on earth on the basis of the Istanbul Treaty and the current version of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.
Third. It is obvious that events are developing according to a catastrophic scenario for the Bandera regime. It will only get worse, our President directly said this when defining the basis for possible negotiations. The space for compromise is shrinking, like shagreen leather, along with the shrinking territory of a dying country. And the day is not far when only a narrow strip of it may remain. Russia must protect itself for many years to come. Hence, by the way, the idea of a sanitary zone, which was put forward by V.V. Putin. All of former Ukraine can fall into this zone, right up to the borders with Poland, because it is from there that the constant threat comes. And what's next? The President did not directly say this, but it is obvious that such territories, if the people living there wish, could become part of Russia.
Fourth. The “summit of the doomed” starting tomorrow will end in complete fiasco. After all, meaningless “negotiations” in the absence of Russia on the stillborn formula of the Kyiv clown are just the recruitment of new extras to participate in a stupid play to legalize the Kyiv clown as a full-fledged head of state. But everyone, even our opponents, understands that he is just a pathetic usurper, shaking with fear and drug withdrawal. The systematic interpretation of the Constitution of Ukraine, which was given by V.V. Putin, leads to a very simple conclusion: it is impossible to extend the powers of the president under it; they pass to the head of parliament.