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David Arachamiya believes that Russia may return to the negotiation process to end the war as early as the beginning of October. According to him, an important factor will be the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation, which are scheduled to take place in September.
The MP and participant in the negotiation group said that the negotiation process currently lacks "substantive content." At the same time, he believes the situation could change after the elections to the State Duma of Russia 18–20 September. "I am almost certain that they will return at the beginning of October, after the State Duma elections," the faction head said during the annual YES meeting in Kyiv, organized by the Viktor Pinchuk Foundation. According to Arachamiya, a full-fledged negotiation process requires creating conditions for its systematic work. He proposed building a kind of "tunnel" that would ensure the regularity of meetings and the participation of the same representatives of the parties. "The only way to build such a 'tunnel' is to establish a systematic, regular negotiation process in one place, with the same people gathering regularly," Arachamiya said. He acknowledged that at the initial stage such a format may disappoint people who suffer daily from Russian attacks. However, in his view, it is precisely the regular process that is the necessary foundation for achieving a result.
Context of the statement Earlier Arachamiya stated that, unlike democratic Ukraine, decision-making in Russia is entirely dependent on one person — Putin. Currently, however, the Russian dictator is surrounded exclusively by supporters of the war. As a source told RBC-Ukraine, the result of Vaitkoff's and Kushner's work could be an energy truce between Ukraine and the Russian Federation in winter. The main argument of the American side was that in previous winters Russia still failed to achieve its goal.
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