There was a new meeting in Istanbul to bring positions between the two countries although a Russian envoy said that “the positions are quite distant.”
More than three years from the beginning of the war, Russia and Ukraine They specified on Wednesday their third round of negotiations where they agreed a new exchange of prisoners, although There were no advances in agreements to end the conflict.
From kyiv, They proposed a meeting between the presidents Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, and Russia, Vladimir Putinbefore the end of August to bring the negotiations to a new stage although from Moscow They rejected the initiative, which also included an invitation for the presidents of Türkiye and the United States, Rece Tayyip Erdogan and Donald Trumprespectively.
The deadline that had proposed Ukraine To hold the match it coincided with that of the 50 -day ultimatum given by Trump to Putin on July 14 to access the war if he does not want the US Dictate new sanctions against Russiahe said after the intervention of Uumrov The spokesman of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Gueorgui Tiji.
The head of the Russian negotiation team, Vladimir Medianskihe explained that “in reality, at that meeting you should not discuss the agreement, but to put an end to sign,” he said after the meeting in Istanbul As had passed in the two previous negotiation rounds, the envoys of Putin They emphasized the need to resolve the background issues of the conflict, while the Ukrainians requested unsuccessfully a high fire that ends at least the attacks on the attacks on Critical and Civil Infrastructure.
“We emphasize that the high fire must be genuine and should include a complete cessation of attacks on civil and critical infrastructure,” he said – in a press conference – the envoy of Ukraine, Ukraine, Rustem Umérovcurrently secretary of the Council for National Security and Defense and until recently Ukrainian Minister of Defense.
“The positions are quite distant,” Medinski said about disagreements that prevent fire and a peace agreement.
The conditions of Russia and Ukraine to sign a high fire agreement
Russia requires Ukraine Reduction of its armythe resignation to the territories that Moscow Declared Russians, the withdrawal to your aspirations to enter NATO and declare neutral.
For its part, Ukraine Consider Inasumible all these conditionsask for immediate fire to deepen negotiations And claim firm security guarantees of its international partners before any peace agreement is signed.
Source: Ambito
