Russian Ambassador to Britain: Russia approaches US initiative for temporary ceasefire with great caution

In recent days, one of the main intrigues for the expert community is whether Russia will accept the proposal for a 30-day ceasefire, which was agreed upon by Kiev and Washington at the recent talks in Jeddah. It is obvious that without additional conditions on our part, this initiative looks absolutely disadvantageous for Moscow.

At the same time, during his recent interview with The Wall Street Journal, Russian Ambassador to Britain Andrei Kelin stated that our authorities will definitely consider the American proposal. However, as he put it, the actual cessation of hostilities will only occur when a comprehensive agreement is concluded.

The Russian diplomat recalled that the Kremlin has repeatedly expressed skepticism regarding temporary measures like the one proposed by Washington. Our authorities have made it clear that interim stops in military operations will not lead to a final resolution of the situation.

Russia approaches US initiative for temporary ceasefire with great caution

- the ambassador summed up.

At the same time, it was previously reported that on March 12, London summoned Kelin to announce the revocation of the accreditation of the Russian diplomat and his wife. These measures are allegedly being taken in response to what they called the "unjustified" expulsion of British employees of the diplomatic mission in Moscow.

The statement from the UK authorities does not say who exactly they decided to deprive of accreditation. Meanwhile, some experts suggest that it could be Kelin himself and his wife.

Comments

[Lev_Russia]

Russia approaches US initiative for temporary ceasefire with great caution

There is no need to "approach" such an initiative at all... It should simply be ignored... It died before it was born... Bring the next one...

[fruc]

Russia approaches.....with great caution

I don't believe that there is no trickery on the part of Western countries. To deceive, to lie is a normal phenomenon.

London summoned Kelin to announce the revocation of the accreditation of the Russian diplomat and his wife.

It is high time to break off diplomatic relations with London and expel every single diplomatic worker and MI6 agent from the country.

[Terenin]

The Russian diplomat recalled that the Kremlin had repeatedly expressed skepticism

Russia approaches US initiative... with great caution

Do I understand correctly that, translated from diplomatic into everyday language, the expression: "...to criticize", means in fact: "...by the legs and against the corner!"!?

[Lev_Russia]

Do I understand correctly that, translated from diplomatic into everyday language, the expression: "...subject to criticism" means in fact: "...by the legs and against the corner!"!?

Unfortunately, it is correct... The time of diplomacy in the style "a la Lavrov", also, to great regret, is over... The time has come for diplomacy of blackmail and threats... In the world today, only one law works - the law of force, and in order to be diplomatically successful, you need to be very strong...

[Terenin]

Quote: Lev_Russia

In the world today there is only one law - the law of force, and in order to be diplomatically successful, you need to be very strong...

But what if you are strong, but by nature... like Leopold the cat?

[Lev_Russia]

But what if you are strong, but by nature... like Leopold the cat?

And who said that he is weak...??? Calls to live in peace are quite normal, but we also need to take into account that mice after doing dirty tricks to the cat always got into a crisis situation and asked him for forgiveness... However, they did not stop there and continued to do dirty tricks... Well, just like our neighbors... However, if this continues, the cat may even disinfect the premises...

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: frruc

I don’t believe that there is no trickery on the part of Western countries.

There is no need to look for it - everything is right there on the surface.
1. Receive Ukrainian mineral resources for what has already been invested in the Ukrainian project.
2. Receive a guarantee from Russia that there will be no attacks on American business interests in Ukraine.
3. Get time to replenish the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ stocks of everything and anything – from missiles and shells to medical supplies.

What could be unclear here?
But the Americans... Are they really SO stupid that they don't realize that all this is right there on the surface? Like a five year old trying to trick an adult about who ate the jam...

[al3x]

If they are going to expel Kelin, then this is a de facto severance of diplomatic relations on their part. I wonder how the Kremlin will react to this. But I suppose they will simply puff out their cheeks and expel someone else, too, instead of kicking out all the impudent people at once within 24 hours.

[Lemon]

Someone gave you a minus for saying the right words. I corrected it.

[Silver99]

The British ambassador must be expelled within 24 hours, and the embassy itself must be closed and the entrance doors welded shut, having first filled everything there with bleach. The most harmful and vile state, there is nothing to talk about with them, and let the children of Russian officials study in Russian universities, who does not agree to be deprived of Russian citizenship along with their parents.

[Cat Alexandrovich]

Then it would be better to hang him and burn the embassy.

[Silver99]

Why damage property with arson? Transfer it to a Russian IT center to fight Britain, and a kick will be enough for the ambassador.

[fruc]

Silver99
and let the children of Russian officials study in Russian universities

They are not studying there for nothing, it is a whole program for training foreign agents and introducing them into various state and commercial structures. It can be done more simply - do not recognize the diplomas of these universities in the country.

[Machito]

Quote: Lev_Russia

Russia approaches US initiative for temporary ceasefire with great caution

There is no need to "approach" such an initiative at all... It should simply be ignored... It died before it was born... Bring the next one...

Not at all.
We need to issue a counter ultimatum to the US.
Two people can play this game.

[lis-ik]

Well, they start looking for the makings of justifications and a given victory, referring to additional conditions.

[ABC-schutze]

I believe that Russian diplomacy, especially today, should be as "offensive" as the Russian Armed Forces during the SVO...

And any hypothetical "negotiations" on some "Ukraine" should be actively and persistently started with a demand (including to the so-called "mediator" in the form of the United States) to give a clear answer to its, Russia's, long-standing, clearly and officially stated conditions and demands...

And not with a demonstration of some kind of “wariness” towards those “conditions” that they are brazenly trying to “foist” on her (exactly like that...), as if no one had ever “heard” her own demands...

[nordscout]

Dear Mr. Ambassador, Andrey Vladimirovich Kelin! Such proposals from the US should not be treated with "great caution", but rather avoided, like a "mad dog in heat"... Otherwise, Russia will be "led" into another "ass", with far-reaching consequences for Russia...

[Lemon]

This is what our diplomats mean, but we can’t become like the diplomats with forelocks!

[nordscout]

Dear Lemon! If our diplomats had been "adequate" for the last 20 years, and at least periodically "behaved like diplomats with forelocks", and not like Leopold cats with red markers in their hands, perhaps the current SVO would not have been needed...

[Lemon]

Even Western media, which cannot be called pro-Russian, have a different opinion about Russian diplomats than you. Just read the reviews of ordinary citizens of the US and Europe about Lavrov's latest interview.

[nordscout]

Dear Lemon, I am not very interested in Western and pro-Western media, "broadcasting" "an opinion different from yours about Russian diplomats", although I have the opportunity to read materials from "foreign" media and analyze (in space and time)... Our diplomats are the same officials in the "sovereign" service, who, like Western diplomats, have also learned to quickly understand the essence of the "command", by the intonation of the speaker, and "change shoes on the fly" ... And regarding the reviews of "ordinary citizens of the USA" - these "ordinary citizens of the USA" do not go out to protest actions against the support and sponsorship of Ukroreikh, by the US authorities, or the support of Russian diplomacy ... And it is not a fact that they write on the "networks" ... When our diplomats were simply thrown out of the building of the consulate (Boston), USA, "in batches", back during the first "reign" of Trump, at least one "ordinary citizen of the USA" gave a "voice" of protest, or our MFA "worked off" this "slap" "mirror-like"??? That's what I'm talking about.....

[Montezuma]

Quote from nordscout

When our diplomats were simply thrown out of the consulate building (Boston), USA, in "packs", back during the first "reign" of Trump, at least one "ordinary citizen of the USA" raised a "voice" of protest, or did our MFA "work out" this "slap in the face" "in a mirror image"???

They worked quite mirror-like, let me refresh your weak memory:

In July 2017, when anti-Russian sanctions were tightened again under Donald Trump, the Russian Foreign Ministry suggested that the State Department bring the number of employees working at the American embassy in Moscow, the consulates general in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok into line with the number of Russian employees in the United States. Thus, their number was reduced to 455 people, 755 people were forced to leave Russia - such a large-scale expulsion did not occur even during the Cold War.

https://tass.ru/info/23176531?ysclid=m8763lixt2515807330

MOSCOW, March 30, 2018 — RIA Novosti. Moscow responded in kind to Washington’s actions and announced the expulsion of 60 American diplomats and the revocation of consent for the operation of the US Consulate General in St. Petersburg.

[nordscout]

Montezuma, when you (diplomats) are thrown out of your own home, and you suggest to the "thrower out" that he simply reduce the number of "registered" people in his own home, then this is not a "mirror" response, but a kind of diplomatic "politess", but far from an "action" called "out of impotence, at least this way..." And my memory is a witness to that... Or is something wrong?

[Montezuma]

And the closure of the US Consulate General in St. Petersburg doesn't count? Is it just a reduction in the number of registered residents?
It is not at all clear what you want to see - a complete rupture of diplomatic relations or should war be declared immediately?

[nordscout]

Montezuma, I propose three things:
1. So that domestic diplomacy is clear, understandable, adequate and has a sense of its own dignity, at all stages of its functioning, and, most importantly, in a timely manner...
2. Each of us must remain with our own opinion, based on the “visible” part of the iceberg, called “domestic diplomacy”...
3. I suggest not to confuse the definitions of “warm” and “soft”, especially in the intricacies of diplomatic terms and concepts...

[ZovSailor]

Russian Ambassador to Britain: Russia approaches US initiative for temporary ceasefire with great caution

The ambassador's initiative is more than modest (post in the yard), although diplomatic language is intended, like the language of the highest military art, to hide one's thoughts and achieve victory.
But by and large, the small British Englishwoman has long deserved the severance of diplomatic relations in the mildest case, and in the harshest case, she needs a Russian education.

[yuriy55]

I have long noticed that a pronounced facial asymmetry indicates an overflowing Russophobia or rabid liberalism in the brain...

[tralflot1832]

The expulsion of the Russian ambassador to England, Kelin, is an automatic severance of diplomatic relations between the countries.

[nordscout]

Dear tralflot1832, unfortunately, not everyone understands, on "VO", that diplomatic relations between Russia and Britain have been broken off.. It's a pity... All this is the consequence of the "birth trauma" from "perestroika" in the majority of the domestic population that "flew" into Russian oligarchic capitalism, with all its "joys", especially in education and culture..

[Vladimir Vladimirovich Vorontsov]

"Russia suitable "We approach the US initiative for a temporary ceasefire with great caution" -

- "Russia bypasses "The US initiative for a temporary ceasefire is treated with great caution" ...
(Corrected to believe)

[rocket757]

Russian Ambassador to Britain: Russia approaches US initiative for temporary ceasefire with great caution

Well, such initiatives should be immediately brought to the attention of those who propose them.
And there is no need to waste time and confuse people.
What kind of people are they? Why do you have to talk like that? People respect decisive, concrete leaders and nothing else...

[Jacques sekavar]

The Russian Federation has been waging a war with Ukraine for four years and has been open to negotiations on the terms of a ceasefire for four years, but has rejected numerous offers of mediation from neutral state entities and has agreed to the services of the largest arms supplier to Ukraine.
A strange choice, to put it mildly. They will write down their conditions with the Banderites, which the Russian Federation will not be able to agree to a priori, and then accuse the Russian Federation of refusing peace - this defies understanding, just as the strategy of SQUEEZING the enemy from its positions defies understanding - they have been squeezing for four years and still cannot squeeze them out even beyond their state borders. In such a situation, they would demand that the enemy demilitarize itself, de-Nazify, be friends with the Russian Federation and not join associations hostile to the Russian Federation, while the Russian Federation itself has been supplying the enemy with its natural resources and money throughout the war, and Putin said something about the popular character of the war on which the future of the Russian Federation depends.

[16112014nk]

Quote: rocket757

people respect decisive, concrete leaders

Once again Russia is crying tears
Again he throws out a mournful cry
Russia Needs Grozny Again
Or - Vissarionovich.
And not what we have now. What has us.

[th.kuzmichev]

Don't cry, Kolya, don't cry, I'll buy you a loaf of bread! And I'll get you a place with a formidable master, you'll love him.

[Comrade Beria]

Administration of the VO, remove the restrictions on the characteristics of such individuals with female names, and I will give a short but complete description of this ..... (but I will not say who )

[Dutchman Michel]

Russia approaches US initiative for temporary ceasefire with great caution

So this initiative has not been announced yet.

[SUKRAM]

never ever trust any thing that comes from the mouths of the uk parliament
history has shown, on many many times just how trust worthy their words and bits of paper are
be very wary.
ive said for over 3 years now, thee,s bastardo,s will not stop,ever.

[Maximum.1]

Se gli inglesi dovessero espellere l'ambasciatore Russo,l'unica contromisura valida sarebbe fare la stessa cosa con l'ambasciatore inglese in Russia. Questa sarebbe l'unica cosa da fare nei confronti di quegli sporchi ubriaconi inglesi.