The Telegram post from RVvoenkor, a Russian military-aligned propaganda channel, is a deliberate distortion of diplomatic events presented through a carefully curated lie designed to reinforce Moscow’s maximalist war aims and to discredit any notion of negotiation or de-escalation. It attributes its content to a Ukrainian official—Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the UN—but frames his reported statements through a weaponized lens meant to justify further aggression, preempt diplomatic pressure, and sow fatalism about peace prospects.
The post claims that Russia, during negotiations, “categorically rejected” the idea of an unconditional ceasefire and that this rejection was part of their official directives. It further alleges that Russia demanded Ukraine give up four regions, while signaling that “six or eight” more would be demanded in the future. Finally, it attributes to Vladimir Medinsky, the head of the Russian delegation, a grotesquely cynical phrase: that the war is simply “a confrontation between Russians and Russians with certain nuances.”
None of this is presented with context, sourcing, or verification—hallmarks of Telegram-based disinformation. Instead, the post amplifies maximalist Russian rhetoric under the guise of quoting Ukrainian frustration. This is a deliberate psychological tactic: co-opting the voice of the adversary to make Moscow’s intransigence seem inevitable and legitimate.
In reality, the idea that Russia ever approached negotiations in good faith has been debunked repeatedly. Moscow’s demands during previous talks were maximalist from the outset, requiring recognition of its illegal annexations and the demilitarization of Ukraine—terms that would amount to a unilateral surrender. The framing of this post omits all of that and instead turns a report of Russian obstinance into an implied boast: that Russia is unapologetically expansionist, unyielding, and confident in its ability to dictate future terms.
The claim that Medinsky called the war “Russians vs. Russians” is especially insidious. It is not only a historical fabrication—it erases Ukrainian identity entirely, feeding into the Kremlin’s genocidal denial of Ukraine’s right to exist as a sovereign nation. This is not rhetoric; it is narrative warfare crafted to rationalize continued occupation, cultural erasure, and mass violence.
This Telegram post is a textbook product of Kremlin cognitive warfare strategy. By framing peace as weakness and negotiation as a trap, it serves a dual purpose. First, it hardens the perception among Russian ultranationalists that the war must continue until total victory. Second, it projects to international observers that any diplomatic effort is futile because Russia is immovable—an attempt to fracture Western support for Ukraine by making resolution appear impossible.
This type of messaging is a hallmark of modern Russian influence operations identified and tracked by Treadstone 71. These narratives exploit real diplomatic touchpoints, warp them with selective truth and fictional framing, then inject them into high-volume distribution networks like Telegram to shape perceptions before facts can catch up.
RVvoenkor’s post is not merely misleading—it is a cognitive munition, pre-loaded with despair, triumphalism, and identity erasure. It must be flagged, dissected, and actively countered across international diplomatic channels and open-source intelligence platforms. Peace efforts do not collapse in a vacuum—they are assassinated by posts like this, crafted to obliterate reason, exhaust resistance, and smother sovereignty beneath the weight of narrative inevitability.
