First, Russia should be given a good slap and then sit at the negotiating table - Podolyak

Russia wants to force Ukraine to return to the negotiation table as soon as possible, said the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office Mikhail Podolyak. On the air of the Telelorphone, he stressed that the Kremlin seeks to start negotiations now until the Russian troops have received tactical defeats on the battlefield.

"If we are now sitting at the negotiation table, then Russia, which has not received a good slap, that is, has not yet received several significant tactical defeat on the battlefield, will pursue the same policy that it always pursues," he explained. Video of the Day Podolyak said that Russia was talking from the point of blackmail and ultimatum. The Kremlin in the case of resumption of negotiations will require Ukraine to abandon the territories.

However, after loss on the front, the negotiation position of the Russian Federation can change. “I want to be understood in the world. Russia can only sit at the negotiation table when it receives on the teeth. After that, it will be a certain time, not for a very long time, to perceive other people's arguments, ”Podolyak added.