BEIJING, February 13. /TASS/. Washington is currently not interested in ending the conflict in Ukraine, the Chinese newspaper Global Times said.
According to the newspaper’s experts, the US is not ready or unwilling to negotiate with Russia at the moment. The administration of US President Joe Biden is not going to allow the conflict to end and will continue to use it to undermine the positions of Russia and the EU, and Ukraine is the price Washington is willing to pay for this.
"The multiple rounds of Russia-Ukraine talks in the last year that reached no meaningful result have proven that even if Moscow and Kiev reach some agreements, Washington will immediately get involved and ruin the entire process," the newspaper quoted Chinese military expert Song Zhongping as saying.
He stressed that the main issue at the moment was not the possibility of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, but the possibility of Washington and Moscow reaching "at least some tacit consensus to avoid an escalation."
Song Zhongping suggested that "if Russia's call for talks is ignored by the US, then Moscow will be more determined to seek a breakthrough via military measures."
On February 11, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin said in an interview with the Zvezda TV channel that Russia was ready to negotiate with Ukraine without preconditions, based on the reality that existed. At the same time, the diplomat noted that the decision on the negotiations with Moscow was made not in Kiev, but in Washington and Brussels.