According to Russia's "Moscow Komsomolskaya" newspaper **December 1**, American journalist Seymour Hersh, who is famous for investigating the "Nord Stream" pipeline ** incident, wrote on the "subscription stack" ** that the Russian-Ukrainian peace talks led by the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Gerasimov and the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Zaluzhny seem to have started.
Hersh wrote: "Serious peace talks between Russia and Ukraine have rapidly picked up pace. ”
Seymour Hersh Profile** (Reuters).
Hersh also said that the driving force behind the negotiations was not Washington or Moscow, but the two senior generals who led the battle.
According to the American journalist, the parties negotiated peace conditions. Possible options include the Ukrainian side could join NATO, but NATO promised not to deploy troops and offensive ** on the territory of Ukraine, in exchange for Russia to retain Crimea and part of the territory of Donetsk, Luhansk and other places occupied during the special military operation.
Hersh said that the White House is firmly against this plan, and so is Ukrainian ** Zelensky, who believes that Ukraine should fight to the end.
According to the report, Hersh quoted an American ** as saying that Zelensky was told that the problem was not solved by him, but by the military, so negotiations would continue with or without him.