“There is some progress on several positions, but not on all. We are moving slowly,” said Russian presidential adviser Vladimir Medinsky.
Russia and Ukraine They have gotten progress on several points of the negotiation, but that hope of an agreement does not prevent the Russian offensive from continuing, which, among other civilian victims, has cost the lives of a hundred minors, according to Ukrainian sources.
“There is some progress on several positions, but not on all. We are moving slowly,” said Russian presidential adviser Vladimir Medinsky.
The Russian Foreign Minister, Serguei Lavrov, has also referred today to these contacts and has assured that “it is close” to obtaining an agreement with Ukraine on the security guaranteesas reported by Russian agencies.
“There are a number of formulations of the agreements with Ukraine on the neutrality status and security guarantees that are about to be achieved,” Lavrov said, Russia’s Interfax agency reported.
Hours earlier, the president of Ukraine, Volodomir Zelenskystated that the positions in the negotiations with Russia for a ceasefire are now more realistic, but that time is still needed for the decisions “to be in the interest of Ukraine”.
Sixth round of talks
Today is the sixth day of negotiations, also by videoconference, in which the sanctions that the West has imposed on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine on February 24 are also discussed.
It is discussing “in general, this whole crazy situation with economic sanctions, which, of course, no longer resembles any sanctions, but a full-fledged, large-scale and historically unprecedented economic war against Russia”, has added.
What model of neutrality?
“(Ukraine’s) neutrality status is now being seriously discussed in conjunction, of course, with security guarantees,” Russian Minister Lavrov said.
The possibility of Ukraine becoming a demilitarized statein the style of Austria or Sweden, is one of the options being discussed in the negotiations between Moscow and kyiv, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has assured.
Source: Eitb
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