The spokesman did not elaborate on the issues on which the talks are not advancing “because currently making them public only harms the process of talks, which is already slower and less substantial than we would like.”
Mikhailo Podoliakadviser to the Presidency of Ukraine, for his part described the negotiations with Russia as “difficult” and explained that they are now being carried out electronically so as not to “waste time”. “We have to find formulas as soon as possible because the bombing continues,” he said.
Thus, he confirmed that there are negotiations at different levels, which have become “very complicated.” “There is the negotiating team that everyone knows, but there are also many other groups that work in different formats. There are political advisers from both sides and it is an open process,” she said.
On the possibility of working on a draft peace between Russia and Ukraine that the delegations are addressing whether or not there may be such a document, something that “cannot be discussed until an agreement is reached that can be made public.”
“Now the Russian side is trying to exert psychological pressure on us in order to provoke conflicts in Ukrainian society.a”, he warned before clarifying that there are “inadmissible” issues related to concessions, as well as specific security needs. “We cannot be constantly fighting alone,” he said.
On Monday, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyhad once again requested a meeting with the Russian president, Vladimir Putinwho has already ruled out a summit outright.
“I think that, at the moment, without a meeting with the president of the Russian Federation in any format, and I have been repeating and proposing for several years, without this meeting you cannot really understand what they are willing to do to stop the war“, he pointed.
In this regard, he said that “he is willing to raise questions about the occupied territories” crimea and the donbas.
Zelensky previously said that, in any case, the commitments made with Russia must be ratified by the Ukrainian citizenry through a referendum.
Russia has proposed as a condition to stop its military offensive the recognition of the annexation of Crimea, the independence of Donetsk and Lugansk and Ukraine’s neutrality. This last proposal, the renunciation of joining NATO, is the only one that kyiv would accept.
The attacks continue
In his speech, posted on video on his official Facebook profile, Zelenski listed several attacks during the day on Monday, such as in Khersonwhere “the occupiers” shot at people who came “peacefully” and “unarmed” to a demonstration “for freedom”.
“In the region of Kharkiv, near Chuguev, another enemy aircraft was shot down. Our Army has already built so many Russian planes and helicopters that one can only wonder: What do their pilots have instead of intelligence? Is it also empty?” he added.
The authorities of Severodonetskin the Ukrainian region of Lugansk (east), reported Tuesday that several people have died and have been injured as a result of a Russian attack on a store.
Source: Ambito
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