“Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, who headed the Ukrainian delegation in Istanbul, said that Ukraine would have a week to study the proposals of the Russian Federation to end the war. According to him, after that “we will be able to coordinate our steps.” Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Kislytsa said that Kiev had previously submitted proposals and asked if the Russian side was a response to them – “unfortunately, they did not receive the response.” “We have not seen the proposals of the Russian Federation before, they gave them during our meeting, so we cannot respond to them now. We need to get acquainted with the document .. I also want to point out that the Russian side refuses to stop fire. But experts will continue to consider it, ”he said at a briefing. Read also: “We continue to propose a complete ceasefire”-the President on the negotiations in Istanbul, the head of the Russian delegation at Istanbul talks in Istanbul, Vladimir Medinsky stated that Russia has offered Ukraine ceasefire for two to three days in separate sections of the front. “The last proposal that sounded on our part-since often the Ukrainian side indicates the need for ceasefire-we offered a specific ceasefire: two to three days in separate sections of the front,” said Medinsky journalists.”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to him, after that “we will be able to coordinate our steps.”
“We have not seen the proposals of the Russian Federation before, they gave them during our meeting, so we cannot respond to them now. We have to get acquainted with the document, ”he said at a briefing.
Instead, AXIOS with reference to an unnamed Ukrainian official writes that Russia continues to claim in its memorandum for peace in all the occupied territories of Ukraine. Moscow demands to withdraw Ukrainian troops from the occupied units of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions.
According to Reuters, Ukraine has put forward a number of proposals for negotiations, including the lack of obligation to have a neutral status and non -recognition of occupied territories in Russian.
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The Kremlin refused to transfer to Ukraine its conditions for negotiations in Istanbul, which was criticized in Kiev. In particular, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that this testifies to the Kremlin’s desire to make negotiations “empty”.
During the previous round of the negotiations, which took place on May 16, the parties could not be achieved, but then the exchange of prisoners in the format of a thousand per thousand was agreed. The last stage of the exchange ended on May 25.