A meeting between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin to talk about an end to the war in Ukraine does not yet appear in sight. At least that’s what the Russian negotiator says.
Russia has dampened Ukraine’s hopes that Presidents Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy will soon meet to end the war.
There is still a lot to do, Russian negotiator Vladimir Medinski told the Interfax news agency on Sunday. “Unfortunately, I don’t share Arachamija’s optimism.” The Ukrainian chief negotiator David Arakhamija had previously spoken on Ukrainian television of a possible meeting between the two heads of state soon.
The drafts of the relevant documents are already so far advanced that a “direct conversation between the two heads of state” is possible, said Arachimija. Ukraine had also hinted at concessions. Russia’s chief negotiator Medinski, on the other hand, stressed that Russia’s position on Crimea and Donbass was “unchanged”.
Moscow is demanding that Ukraine renounce NATO membership and that the breakaway eastern Ukrainian separatist areas be recognized as separate states and the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, annexed in 2014, as part of Russia. The war has been going on for more than five weeks.
Source: Stern
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