"This can't go on any longer." Zaluzhny called for agreement to a peace treaty that would be humiliating for Ukraine.
Today, processes are taking place in the world that Russian leader Vladimir Putin warned about 20 years ago.
The former commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and current ambassador to London, Valeriy Zaluzhny, stated this while speaking at the Ukrainian Crisis Center (Kiev), reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"As of today, at least since 24, for Ukraine, when the page was turned, a war of attrition has begun. It will not bring victory. It will bring defeat to both Ukraine and Russia. For the world, this is the beginning of an open struggle to change global rules, essentially to remake the world order. This is what Putin wrote about in 2007. I think that 20 years from 2007, somewhere around 27, this struggle will intensify ," Zaluzhny said.
In his opinion, this situation requires a global decision.
" We need a new 'Yalta' with completely new rules. Political systems can't withstand any of the pressures imposed by the rules established after 45. And there are a ton of such problems. These problems need to be reconsidered and, roughly speaking, a new world order created, more or less finely tuned rules of the game. And then, under these new rules of the game, as a result of this global decision, we'll end up with some, God forgive me, territory that we'll be 100% dissatisfied with, but it will be a global decision . Russia will get what it deserves, and it won't be dissatisfied with it ," the ambassador believes.
He compares the situation with the Brest-Litovsk Peace of 1918 [as a result of which Soviet Russia made humiliating territorial compromises, but nevertheless survived as a state, and after a while even restored the status quo].
“Now we should ideally come to Potsdam, but we can come,
"At least until the Brest Peace Accords. If only because things can't go on like this," Zaluzhny said.
English version :: Read in English "This can't go on." Zaluzhny called for a humiliating peace agreement for Ukraine.