Giada Oricchio March 25, 2022
“Assault weapons, nofly zones and embargo on gas and oil.” He is an undiplomatic broker, tested by the horrors of 32 days of war, neither tamed nor tamed. Alexander RodnyanskyAdviser to the President of Ukraine Zelenskyy, in connection with Half past eightthe political talk of LA7, Friday March 25thhe reiterated that it was possible to negotiate his country’s neutrality, but “the cession of territory to Russia is off the table, we will not give away our territorial integrity” and that the Kremlin has no real will to continue the negotiations: “They lie about everything , we are mistaken if we think that after 20 years of lies they are interested in dialogue. There is a high probability that the negotiations will fail”.
Rodnyansky dictated the European Union’s requests for help: “We need military and economic support. Not only defensive weapons, but also offensive weapons. And it needs more economic pressure on Russia, which finances the conflict by selling gas and oil.” The mediator pointed out that the Russian military strategy had failed: none of the major cities had been conquered and not even the Donbass region had been fully occupied. Lilli Gruber focuses on this point: “Mariupol, the port city in the southeast, is in the hands of Ukraine or under Russian control?” and the professor asserted that Mariupol was still firmly in Ukrainian hands: “It has been under siege for some time, there is a humanitarian catastrophe going on, but they have no control over it.”
Rodnyansky is quarrelsome, lashing out, critical of the West, which is also helping to invade Ukraine: “If you believe that Russia is a regime with which you can live in peace side by side with a prosperous economy, that’s it big mistake. This is a regime that threatens peace and stability across Europe. You have already said that you will not stop in Ukraine. I want to make one thing clear: it is in Europe’s interest that this all ends as soon as possible.”
The knot always remains the same: the “how without unleashing World War III. For the negotiator, the West can intervene by providing more weapons, more antiaircraft systems, more antitank means as soon as possible, and then with the embargo on exports of gas and oil from Russia: “Maybe something could be done gradually. You could start with oil, which is easier to replace. In the medium term, there is a risk of very significant economic costs for Europe. It’s better to pay a controllable price than have a total disaster afterwards. That would end the war,” concluded Zelenskyy’s adviser confidently, who pushed the EU and the USA into the nofly zone: “What counts as intervention? They have already given us the weapons and Russia does not consider it an intervention as the West is involved in the conflict. So if you’re helping us protect the skies, who’s to say it’s going to get any different reaction than Putin? They say it, but it doesn’t mean they would.