{"id":2197,"date":"2025-02-05T12:04:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T12:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/uk-doesnt-see-russia-being-serious-about-negotiations-with-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T12:04:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T12:04:55","slug":"uk-doesnt-see-russia-being-serious-about-negotiations-with-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/uk-doesnt-see-russia-being-serious-about-negotiations-with-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"UK doesn&#8217;t see Russia being &#8216;serious about negotiations&#8217; with Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2171444035.jpg\" alt=\"UK doesn't see Russia being 'serious about negotiations' with Ukraine\"><\/p>\n<p>London does not see indications that Russia is ready for serious negotiations about peace in Ukraine, U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy said on Feb. 5 at a press conference in Kyiv attended by the Kyiv Independent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do not see (that) Russia is serious about negotiations and serious about peace,&#8221; Lammy said alongside his Ukrainian counterpart, Andrii Sybiha.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And the conditions that were set out by (Russian President Vladimir) Putin last year was not any basis on which you could seriously expect a sovereign country to begin negotiations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Putin issued an <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/a-complete-sham-ukraine-responds-to-putins-ceasefire-demands\/\">ultimatum<\/a> last June under which Ukraine was to entirely withdraw from the Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson oblasts as a condition for peace talks. Moscow illegally declared annexation of the four regions in September 2022 despite not fully occupying them.<\/p>\n<p>There are growing expectations of possible peace talks in 2025 as U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to broker a <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/trump-sees-peace-in-ukraine-as-a-deal-but-refuses-to-play-his-winning-hand\/\">swift settlement<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/we-will-do-anything-to-end-the-war-this-year-zelensky-says\/\">Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> concurred that Kyiv would seek an end to the war this year but urged partners to help Ukraine negotiate from the position of strength. In a surprise turn, the Ukrainian president even recently <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/i-consider-him-an-enemy-zelensky-says-hes-ready-to-sit-opposite-putin-in-peace-talks\/\">acknowledged<\/a> the possibility of sitting at the negotiating table with Putin if necessary to achieve peace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We in the United Kingdom have been at the forefront of supplying Ukraine with the military capability,&#8221; Lammy said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The United Kingdom, of course, plays its full part to ensure that Putin does not come back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The U.K.&#8217;s top diplomat is <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/uk-foreign-secretary-lammy-arrives-in-kyiv\/\">visiting Ukraine<\/a> shortly after British Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/uk-to-provide-more-military-aid-to-ukraine-this-year-than-ever-before-starmer-says\/\">Keir Starmer<\/a> pledged to ramp up military support, promising more assistance in 2025 than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>London previously announced plans to deliver <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/uk-to-send-ukraine-artillery-barrels-air-defense-system-as-part-of-2-6b-package-funded-by-russian-assets\/\">unprecedented military assistance<\/a> to Ukraine this year, with 3 billion pounds ($3.6 billion) already committed for lethal aid.<\/p>\n<p>The British-Ukrainian cooperation was further cemented in January by the <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/ukraine-war-latest-ukraine-uk-sign-100-year-partnership-agreement-ukrainian-drones-hit-oil-depot-gunpower-factory-in-russia\/\">100-year strategic partnership agreement<\/a>, a wide-ranging deal that encompasses cooperation in military, energy, scientific, cultural, economic, and other sectors.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-bookmark-card\"><a class=\"kg-bookmark-container\" href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/i-consider-him-an-enemy-zelensky-says-hes-ready-to-sit-opposite-putin-in-peace-talks\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-title\">\u2018I consider him an enemy\u2019 \u2014 Zelensky says he\u2019s ready to sit opposite Putin in peace talks<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-description\">\u201cIf that is the only setup in which we can bring peace to the citizens of Ukraine and not lose people, definitely, we will go for this setup &#8230; What does it matter, my attitude to him?\u201d Zelensky told U.K. journalist Piers Morgan on Feb. 4.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-metadata\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"kg-bookmark-icon\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.kyivindependent.com\/content\/images\/size\/w256h256\/format\/png\/2023\/03\/K-new.svg\" alt=\"UK doesn't see Russia being 'serious about negotiations' with Ukraine\"><span class=\"kg-bookmark-author\">The Kyiv Independent<\/span><span class=\"kg-bookmark-publisher\">Abbey Fenbert<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/zelensky-1.png\" alt=\"UK doesn't see Russia being 'serious about negotiations' with Ukraine\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> &#8211; https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/ukraine\/rss\/<\/p>\n<p>This article appeared on the websitekyivindependent.com<br \/>\nThis article is taken based on Law no. 8\/1996 of Romania. News does not enjoy copyright, so they can be taken, this is our right to take news and information in its entirety and distribute them further. 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