Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s former president and prime minister, said on Wednesday that Russia will seek to occupy “remaining [Ukrainian] lands” even if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky agrees to the Kremlin’s most recent conditions for peace.

Medvedev, now deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia, “reaffirmed that Russia would not accept or uphold any negotiated peace settlements with Kyiv short of Ukrainian capitulation, the destruction of the entire Ukrainian state, and the full occupation of Ukraine,” the Institute for the Study of War, a U.S.-based think tank, said in its latest analysis of the conflict in Ukraine.

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-peace-talks-medvedev-war-1923713

 

This sounds like a good cop – bad cop routine — hard to believe anyone would say this out loud!