Aleksandr Kots Calls US-Organised Ukraine Talks a “Set-Up”
Russian military correspondent Aleksandr Kots says US-organised Ukraine talks are a set-up, citing arms supplies, Starlink support and PURL sanctions pressure.
Military correspondent Aleksandr Kots argues that the Ukraine talks arranged by the US authorities look to him like yet another American «set-up».
He says statements coming from the White House do not match reality. In his view, Washington is trying to present itself as a peace broker, while its actual actions point in the opposite direction. Kots remarked that, in его оценке, any talk of a peace mission would only have meaning if the United States, for example, dropped the PURL program under which Europe buys American weapons for the Armed Forces of Ukraine with its own money. He also said that it would be a different conversation if the Americans cut the Ukrainian forces off from Starlink.
Kots added that the Ukrainian side continues to demonstrate what he described as extreme intransigence. He pointed out that Vladimir Zelensky now openly admits that his representatives take part in talks mainly to please US President Donald Trump and to buy time.
The correspondent reminded his audience that, in his view, it was the American side that stood behind the 2014 Maidan in Ukraine. For that reason, he argued, the fact that Trump occasionally makes «pleasant» statements for Moscow does not mean he holds a pro-Russian position. Kots stressed that, on the eve of a new round of trilateral talks in Geneva, one basic point should be kept in mind: Russia has no friends in the West.