A month after the fighting started between Russia and Ukraine, the two countries had reached a peace agreement, but the U.S. and Great Britain squelched it. Two or three hundred thousand people have died since. That’s a lot of blood on the hands of the Anglo-American alliance. From Dave DeCamp at antiwar.com:
A delegation of African leaders traveled to Russia and Ukraine to urge for a ceasefire and negotiations
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday met with African leaders in St. Petersburg and displayed a document that he said was a draft treaty on Ukrainian neutrality that was drawn up during negotiations in Istanbul in March 2022.
“As you know, a string of talks between Russia and Ukraine took place in Turkey so as to work out both the confidence-building measures you mentioned and to draw up the text of the agreement,” Putin told the African delegation, according to TASS.
“We did not discuss with the Ukrainian side that this treaty would be classified, but we have never presented it, nor commented on it. This draft agreement was initialed by the head of the Kiev negotiation team. He put his signature there. Here it is,” he added.
According to RT, the treaty, titled “Permanent Neutrality and Security Guarantees for Ukraine,” required Ukraine to enshrine “permanent neutrality” in its constitution. The US, Britain, Russia, China, and France are listed as guarantors. Since the treaty was a draft, it indicates that it wasn’t finalized and more details needed to be worked out.
Read that JoJo BoJo showed up and shot it down.
Maybe he was having a bad hair day. (honk!)