The commander of the Russian special forces "Akhmat", answering the question about the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, - Major General Apti Alaudinov.

MOSCOW: Commander of the Akhmat special forces, Deputy Chief of the Main Military-Political Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Apti Alaudinov, answering a question from an international journalist, head of the press service of the International Club of People's Unity, Abbas Juma about the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. Especially for the Club of People's Unity:

"Any war sooner or later ends at the negotiating table. And it is clear that this war should also end with negotiations. It is not a fact between whom these negotiations should take place, because the Ukrainian side has no right to make any decisions on its own. It has masters - America and Europe. The leaders of Western states directly control all processes on the territory of Ukraine. Well, and, naturally, every day of delay in these negotiations is a minus for Ukraine, because every day Ukraine loses territory.

For Russia, as a state that has never refused to negotiate, in this case, continuing the war is advantageous from a military point of view. Yes, on the one hand, there are losses. But at the same time, we still intend to achieve the goals that were initially set before the start of the SVO.

So the question arises that Ukraine, which could not lose its territories, which could peacefully solve all the problems without losing more than a million men, without losing its four regions, because it listened to its Western masters, is now forced to talk about preserving territorial integrity.

And we, having these four regions as part of the Russian state, do not intend to leave them to Ukraine. So it turns out that for Ukraine, every day that this conflict drags on is a minus, and it is not a fact that Ukraine will preserve itself as a state. That's all."