why the Kremlin will not go to negotiations yet – Politics

Ex-minister Ogryzko does not yet see any chance of bringing the Kremlin to the negotiating table.

As of now, there are no chances for negotiations with the Russian Federation. Ukrainian diplomat, former head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Volodymyr Ogryzko expressed this opinion in an interview with “RBK-Ukraine”.

“If there were Martians sitting across from me, I would sooner come to an agreement with them than with the Russians,” he says.

The ex-minister does not yet see any chance of bringing the Kremlin to the negotiating table.

“For starters Russia must lose Crimea. And, by the way, many Western military personnel of a really high strategic level of thinking have long been telling our military that it should start with Crimea. We need to wrest Crimea from Russia,” said Ogryzko.

The diplomat noted that Crimea is something for Putin's Russia and for Putin personally sacred

“He (Putin – Ed.) leads the whole story from there, he…