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According to Anthony Guterresh, the fighting in Ukraine may end next year, despi...

"Will have to wait": The UN Secretary General told when the war of the Russian Federation and Ukraine end

According to Anthony Guterresh, the fighting in Ukraine may end next year, despite the fact that both parties do not declare their readiness for negotiations. The war in Ukraine can end in 2023. This forecast was given by the UN Secretary General Anthony Guterres during a press conference on Monday, December 19. Initially, Guterrash expressed doubts that negotiations between Ukraine and Russia will be held. "I do not look optimically at the possibility of effective negotiations in the near future.

I think that military confrontation will continue, and I think that we will still have to wait at the time when serious negotiations for peace will be possible," he said. According to him, the UN will try to be useful when offering platforms for dialogue of Kiev and Moscow, but at the same time the organization has no illusions about it.

However, later, the Secretary General added that, speaking of the impossibility of peaceful negotiations in the near future, he was referring to the whole of 2023. "I very much hope that in 2023 we will be able to reach peace in Ukraine," the Secretary General said. Guterres also added that in the near future the UN wants to focus on improving the efficiency of the grain agreement, exports of ammonia and accelerating the exchange of prisoners.

Focus wrote earlier that the negotiations between the Russian Federation and Ukraine may not be several years old. The war can go to a dead end or go into a frozen conflict. None of the parties yet have resources that would provide a quick victory. In addition, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba criticized the statements of the Russian Federation on the readiness for negotiations.