Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday publicly showed the draft of the peace treaty signed by the two countries in Istanbul during the initial phase of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, according to media reports.
During a meeting with the African Union leaders spearheaded by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at St. Petersberg's Konstantinovsky Palace, Putin accused Ukraine of signing a peace treaty with Moscow earlier, claiming that Kyiv later threw it into the 'garbage of history', Hindustan Times reported.
Several other nations including Senegal, Egypt, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, Congo Republic, and the Comoro Islands also attended the meeting with Putin and his African counterpart.
He added that the draft of the peace treaty between Russia and Ukraine was initialed by a leader from the negotiation group of Kyiv who even signed the document of ‘security guarantees of Ukraine’.
A social media user posted a clip of Putin showing a draft of the peace treaty in the meeting on Twitter.
"Peace was signed between Ukraine and Russia in the spring of 2022."‼️ #Putin publicly showed the previously unpublished document in front of South African President Ramaphosa," the user captioned the video.
The user reminded that Boris Johnson appeared in Kyiv with military gifts for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy when the media was announcing the probable success of peace talks between the nations. After this, the Ukrainian delegation did not appear again for the negotiations, he added.
“The media have already started to announce the probable success of the peace talks... but...‼️ Boris Johnson suddenly appeared in Kiev with military gifts for Zelensky, after which the Ukrainian delegation did not appear again at the negotiations,” he further tweeted.
He cited that Zelensky broke his promise when the Russians withdrew their troops from Kiev in view of the peace agreement between the two nations.
Putin also questioned, “Where are the guarantees that they will not renounce any other agreements in the future?”
“Russia never rejected negotiations,” he added.
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