Index – Foreign countries – Russia’s war in Ukraine – Index’s Tuesday news summary

Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted the Turkish proposal that the opposing parties refrain from strikes on energy facilities, but Ukraine ultimately did not agree to such an agreement, Sergei Shoigu, the secretary of the Russian Security Council, said on the Rossiya 24 news television program on Tuesday.

According to Sojgu, the agreement on this took place even before the Ukrainian incursion into the Kursk region.

Turkey has offered us not to strike energy facilities, not to strike nuclear facilities, and not to strike civilian merchant fleets in the Black Sea. Our president decided this way and said: “Yes, let’s decide this way.” And it was a big surprise for us when, after a while, the Ukrainian authorities said: “No, no, no, we will not enter into this agreement.”

– the former Russian defense minister outlined the situation.

In August, the American newspaper The Washington Post wrote that, prior to the invasion of Kursk, Ukraine, Moscow and Kiev, with the mediation of Qatar, planned to hold “secret” talks on ending the conflict and agree not to attack each other’s energy facilities for two months.

According to the newspaper, Russia decided to stop the process because of the Ukrainian attack. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated at the time that there were no negotiations between the parties.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, when asked whether Russia would continue to be prepared to refrain from strikes against energy facilities, replied: “There was no concrete agreement, that’s the first thing. It is difficult to imagine that any agreement can be reached in light of the situation in Kursk County. But with all that for us […] the most important thing is to achieve our goals”.

Sergei Shoigu also told Rossiya 24 that there will be no negotiations with Ukraine until its troops are “thrown out” of the Kursk region.

There is a very, very important moment here – and that is Kursk. We have not conducted, are not conducting, and will not conduct any negotiations with terrorists – they (the Ukrainian authorities – ed.) count on exactly this, because the attempt to commit a nuclear terrorist act against the Kursk nuclear power plant is, I would say, nothing else , as the highest level of terrorism

he declared. He added: “that is, they had the desire and the desire to get there and seize the Kursk nuclear power plant. Fortunately, that didn’t work out.

According to Sergey Shoigu, the aim of the Ukrainian side with the Kursk attack was for the Russian side to regroup its forces from the practically thousand-kilometer front line, but the Russian side continues its attack at an increasing pace in the Donets basin and “liberates” an average of 28 square kilometers per day. and the Ukrainian army loses about two thousand men in dead and wounded.

The official claimed that the Russian side had brought a thousand kilometers of territory under its control since the beginning of August.

At the same time, Sergej Shoigu praised the Chinese and Brazilian settlement initiatives, but at the same time stated that the most important thing for Russia in this matter is the agreement that was initialed in April 2022, at the Russian-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul. He said that every military strike that the Ukrainian army has carried out on civilian targets since 2014 has been documented from the Russian side.