Ivan Katchanovski Profile picture
Political scientist, University of Ottawa. Research politics, conflicts, policy & political communication in Ukraine, US & Canada. Ex-Harvard, SUNY, UofT & LoC.

May 5, 2022, 11 tweets

Proxy war & not peace: #Ukrainian media reports that "Russian side was almost ready for the Zelensky-Putin meeting" for peace deal to end #ukrainewar. But it was abandoned after British PM visited #Ukraine & told #Zelenskyy not to negotiate with #Putin. pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2022/…

Such revelations about Western policy of treating #Ukraine as tool for proxy war with #Russia & blocking peace deal to end #UkraineRussiaWar corroborate my research-based findings shortly after #Russian invasion of Ukraine. #RussiaUkraineWar #UkraineWar

Another one? "Boris Johnson has flown to Ukraine to meet President Zelenskyy in Kyiv. The Prime Minister had been due to attend a major Levelling Up conference of Tory councillors in Doncaster, but it was announced he would not be attending earlier today."

UK prime minister during another unannounced visit again tells #Zelenskyy not to make any peace deal with #Russia: "Johnson expressed understanding about the impossibility of any compromise between the Ukrainian people and Russian President Vladimir Putin" pravda.com.ua/news/2022/06/1…

UK prime-minister visits #Ukraine unannounced & tells #Zelenskyy no peace deal right after joint visit by leaders of France, Germany & Italy. They apparently urged Zelenskyy to make peace deal to end #RussiaUkraineWar in exchange for EU candidate status. yahoo.com/entertainment/…

Johnson says during scrambled visit that negotiations on future of Ukraine can begin only when #Ukraine controls its entire territory & that security guarantees will be provided to Ukraine when there are no Russian troops on its territory. De facto, never. strana.news/news/395945-dz…

"United States and its allies are making preparations for a prolonged conflict in Ukraine, officials said, as the Biden administration attempts to deny Russia victory by surging military aid to Kyiv while scrambling to ease the war’s destabilizing effects" washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

"The support appears to have emboldened the government of President Volodymyr Zelensky, who this week vowed to retake all of Russian-controlled Ukraine, even areas annexed by Moscow long before Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Feb. 24 invasion." washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

"A senior State Department official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe ongoing international deliberations, said Biden administration officials had discussed the possibility of a protracted conflict with global spillover effects even before February." #Ukraine

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