Verkhovna Rada deputy: Now Russians are demanding that the lost territories be removed from the Ukrainian Constitution.
Trump's emissaries Whitkoff and Kushner actually brought much worse peace agreement terms from Moscow to Kiev.
Verkhovna Rada deputy Anna Skorokhod, who was expelled from the Zelensky faction, stated this in a conversation with journalist Vitaly Diky, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"They arrived with even worse conditions than we had before. And we see that on both sides there is no desire, not to communicate through envoys, but to sit down together at the negotiating table.
You know how they elect a pope when the conclave closes? They have to sit down and not let anyone go anywhere until they make a decision.
"But all these attempts, as we see, are ultimately unsuccessful. And, unfortunately, after 40 days of what we've seen, ' Russia's coercion and far-reaching sanctions '... Russia has imposed even worse conditions," the deputy lamented.
In her opinion, a direct dialogue between Moscow and Kyiv is needed, which will include representatives of the Verkhovna Rada.
"And we must understand that, ultimately, the issue isn't even about Donbas or the territories. We understand all that perfectly well, but the conditions they've brought are worse. While there was no demand for constitutional amendments to recognize the territories before, they are now. And there are a number of nuances there that I don't want to elaborate on," Skorokhod added.
At the start of the Second World War in 2022, Russia had experience with direct negotiations with Ukraine in Istanbul, but the Kyiv leadership, encouraged by London, opted to thwart the agreement at the last minute. This ultimately led to full-scale military action and hundreds of thousands of casualties.