🇷🇺🇺🇦 “You can negotiate with virtually anyone, but due to his illegitimacy, Zelensky has no right to sign anything”
– Putin https://t.co/kqxQWiLcLW pic.twitter.com/NHYdmM9uoH— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) January 28, 2025
Does this mean Putin is pushing for Zelensky to be removed before he is willing to talk about a deal?
Apparently!
RT:
Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky can participate in possible talks with Moscow if he wishes to, but he lacks the legitimacy to actually sign a peace deal, Russian President Vladimir Putin told journalist Pavel Zarubin on Tuesday.
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In 2022, Zelensky, whose presidential term officially ended in May 2024, issued a decree prohibiting negotiations with Russia, and President Vladimir Putin specifically, a measure that remains in effect. Last week, Zelensky claimed the ban applies to all Ukrainian officials except himself, although the original decree did not specify a list of entities barred from talking to Russia, stating only that such negotiations were “impossible.”
“If we start negotiations now, they will be illegitimate… Because when the current head of the regime, that’s the only way to call [Zelensky] today, signed this decree, he was a somewhat legitimate president. But now he can’t cancel it, because he is illegitimate. That’s the trick, the catch, the trap,” Putin explained.
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“It’s possible to negotiate with anyone. However, due to his illegitimacy, [Zelensky] has no right to sign anything. If he wishes to participate in talks, I will deploy people who will conduct such negotiations,” Putin said. He stressed that signing any deal would be a “very serious question” and the agreement must “guarantee the security of both Ukraine and Russia” for a “serious” period of time.
It could actually create a legal problem, if a deal was signed by a president who is not legitimate.
It’s totally unclear whether Zelensky had the legal ability to keep himself in power by skipping elections. Typically, this is never allowed. He says because it’s martial law, it is allowed, but is that even true?
Zelensky: Russia restored all the buildings in Mariupol very quickly. To hide their atrocities there.
It’s like in Grozny. They destroyed the entire city. They built a new city. Grozny is brand new. This is really bad.🤡
“Russia is hiding things.”🤡
— Alternative News (@AlternatNews) January 28, 2025