‘Russophobic West’ to blame for lost Ukraine peace chance – NATO state leader

Kiev made a “huge mistake” by rejecting a potential deal with Moscow in 2022, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has said Ukraine made a “huge mistake” by caving in to its Western backers and walking away from a potential peace deal with Russia in 2022, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has said. He also argued that years of Western military backing have failed to defeat Russia and are now raising the risk of a direct clash between Russia and NATO. In a video address posted on X on Saturday, Fico argued that both sides have sustained “terrible” losses over the years, and that Western military support has failed to contain Russia’s advances. “There is no supranational force to compel Russia to withdraw from the militarily controlled Ukrainian territory,” he said.

“Ukraine made a huge mistake in April 2022, a few months after the start of the conflict, by listening to the Russophobic West and not signing the prepared peace agreement,” he said, adding that the Western strategy “to support the war in Ukraine to the last Ukrainian soldier and defeat Russia” has “completely failed. ” He reiterated that his government will not provide military assistance or loans to Ukraine. NATO member warns bloc seeking pretext for war with Russia Confronted with the failure to destroy Russia through the Ukraine conflict, “several politicians in the West… believe that if it cannot be achieved through the Ukrainian army and its full support, everything must be done to provoke a conflict between NATO and Russia,” Fico stated. “Someone must have gone crazy here,” he said, arguing that “Russia cannot be defeated in a conventional war” and noting that it has a vast nuclear arsenal. Russia moving towards resolving Ukraine conflict – Putin Fico stressed that the Ukraine conflict is “not a NATO war,”…