By Independent News Roundup
Dean Andromidas and Dennis Small November 28, 2024 EST EIRNS - President Putin With Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the meeting with Foreign Ministry senior officials. Photo: Valery Sharifulin, TASS
The peace terms raised by Russian President Vladimir Putin last June continue to be the only path to peace in Ukraine, Russian Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told Sputnik on Nov. 28.
“If the Kiev regime’s handlers, its puppeteers, recognize that there is no alternative to the solution outlined by President Putin at the meeting with the Foreign Ministry leadership on 14 June, adjusted for the developments ‘on the ground’ that have taken place since then, if they see that there is no alternative, then, of course, a negotiated solution is possible,” Ryabkov said. If the West continues along its current trajectories, there will be no basis for any talks, he declared.
“The choice before them is quite simple, binary—either accept what Putin has proposed or stay where they are now, with the prospect of further deterioration of the situation for them,” Ryabkov said.
Ryabkov’s statement comes within hours of the announcement by President-elect Donald Trump that he had named General Keith Kellogg (ret.), chief of staff for the National Security Council during Trump’s first presidential term (2017-2021), as his special envoy for peace talks on Ukraine. RT reported that “Kellogg reportedly co-authored the `frozen conflict’ peace proposal” along with another former Trump aide, Fred Fleitz. “The plan would freeze the conflict along the current line of confrontation without recognizing Russia’s sovereignty over territories claimed by Ukraine”—conditions which Russia has stated it will not accept.
RT reports that, “in the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, he [Kellogg] was appointed chief operating officer of the occupation authority in Baghdad….`I don’t think World War III has begun, but we’re right on the precipice,’ Kellogg told Fox News last week, after President Joe Biden authorized long-range missile strikes into Russia. He described the conflict as `the largest land war in Europe since the end of World War II,’ where a single spark `can spin things right out of control, without even trying.’”
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