‘All of this has to be stopped’: Kazakh president calls for war in Ukraine to be ‘frozen’ at meeting with Putin.
Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev called for the war between Russia and Ukraine to be frozen during talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to video published by propagandist Pavel Zarubin.
Tokayev said he had received “numerous signals” from the United States and Europe about the “conflict situation” between Russia and Ukraine, and that he had passed this information along to Putin.
“This is not a civil war. We have always treated the Ukrainian people, their culture, and their language with respect. We believe many people — ourselves included — don’t fully understand the nature of this conflict. Take, for example, the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia, including its frozen phase. The origins and underlying causes of that conflict were perfectly clear to us, rooted deep in history. But this one is much harder to understand,” Tokayev said.
The Kazakh president also said Putin had shown “the utmost diplomatic flexibility” during his talks with the U.S. in Alaska.
“This is only my humble opinion, since I’ve been asked. Perhaps it’s time to freeze this conflict and return to the Istanbul formula 2.0, where significant progress had already been made. Naturally, this would require guarantees from the great powers, including Russia, and would allow us to move toward the long-awaited peace,” Tokayev suggested.
“It’s heartbreaking that young people are dying. They are the gene pool of the brotherly peoples of Russia and Ukraine. All of this has to be stopped, because what’s happening only benefits — and delights — the enemies of both Russia and the Ukrainian state,” he concluded.
Putin responded by saying he would brief Tokayev in detail on the situation “on the Ukrainian front.”
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