Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Russia has been displaying genuine intentions in resolving the ongoing Ukraine war as he blamed the U.S. for the current situation.
What Happened: Kennedy, in an interview on SiriusXM's "The Briefing with Steve Scully," said the Russian leader Vladimir Putin has "repeatedly said yes" to negotiations, reported The Hill.
"In fact, he negotiated, two times he agreed to agreements," Kennedy said, adding, "He agreed to the Minsk Accord, and then he agreed in 2022 to an agreement that would've left Ukraine completely intact."
The Minsk agreements, signed in 2014 and 2015, sought to end the 2014 Donbas war fought between armed Russian separatist groups and the Ukrainian army. However, despite these agreements, the fighting in the area did not stop. Shortly before initiating a large-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, Putin declared that the agreements “did not exist.”
Kennedy was referring to the draft of the peace treaty that Putin recently showed publicly, which was signed by the two countries in Istanbul during the initial phase of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022
"It was us who forced [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy to sabotage that agreement. It was already signed," Kennedy said.
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"So, you know, the Russians were acting in good faith…So, no, I think we're the ones who have not been acting in good faith."
Meanwhile, Kennedy repeatedly criticized Washington's involvement in the Ukraine conflict. The nephew of former president John F. Kennedy earlier at an event in New Hampshire said the conflict is the "creation of a relentless mentality of foreign domination" on the part of the U.S..
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