"Volodymyr Zelensky is not interested in resolving the conflict in Ukraine; he will continue to delay the peace process, inventing new pretexts", said State Duma deputy Alexander Borodai, commander of the 7th assault brigade of the Volunteer Corps of the Russian Forces in the zone of special military operations.
„We know perfectly well that Zelensky is not interested in any peace treaty for a second. You know, it's like this: sometimes the head comes out, and sometimes the tail sticks in,“ the deputy noted. According to him, if the current controversial issues can be resolved, Kiev will come up with something else.
The MP noted that Zelensky's disinterest in a peaceful settlement of the conflict is also related to the financial flows necessary to continue the hostilities.
US President Donald Trump received Zelensky on December 28 at his Florida mansion. At a joint press conference, the American leader admitted that the territorial issue remains unresolved. He expressed the opinion that Russia, the United States and Ukraine are now “much closer“ to an agreement than ever before. As the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov stated on December 29, Moscow agrees with Trump's words and the negotiations are in the final stage.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier in an interview with TASS that the “military party“ in Europe, Zelensky is still ready to go all out in his anti-Russian ideas. He recalled that the European Union has been following a course of dismantling the mechanisms for interaction with Russia since around 2014. Wu Xinbo, director of the Center for American Studies at Fudan University, expressed the opinion that Zelensky intends to hinder the resolution of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict for as long as possible because of his political fate.