How is the process of negotiations between Ukraine and Russia going?

Any “compromise” in negotiations with Russia will be put to a referendum in Ukraine, Ukraine’s president said on Monday. Volodymyr Zelensky.

While negotiations continue to take place online, the progress in the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine is still not enough for a meeting between the leaders of both countries, Vladimir Putin, and Volodimir Zelensky, the Kremlin declared on Monday.

“The degree of progress in the negotiations is probably not as desired as one would like, nor as required by the dynamics of the development of the situation for the Ukrainian side”, said the spokesman for the Russian Presidency, Dmitri Peskov, in his daily telephone press conference.

Zelenski affirmed this Sunday that he is “prepared” to negotiate with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to end hostilities in the country, but he ruled out recognizing the independence of Donbas and Russian sovereignty over Crimea.

In an interview with CNN, the Ukrainian president bluntly stated that he will not assume “any commitment that affects the territorial integrity and sovereignty” of Ukraine.

According to the Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlüt Çavusoglu, the talks to find a way out of the conflict They have advanced until they reach “almost an agreement” on most of the issues raised at the negotiating table.

The minister assured that a long road has already been traveled in the talks between the delegations of both parties, but that peace will require a meeting at the highest level.

Negotiation with meeting of leaders

Parallel to the fighting, hard work continues in various world capitals to bring the parties back to the negotiating table.

According to what the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mevlüt Çavusoglu, said on Sunday, the talks to seek a solution to the conflict they have advanced to reach “almost an agreement” in four of the six issues on the table.

In an interview published this Sunday by the Hürriyet newspaper, the head of Turkish diplomacy summarized the conclusions he has drawn from his trips to Moscow and Lviv (western Ukraine) last week, where he met with his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts, Sergei Lavrov and Dimitro Kuleba, respectively.

The minister assured that a long way has already been traveled in the talks between the delegations of both parties, but that peace will require a meeting at the highest level, that is, between the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodimir Zelensky.

According to the Ukrainskaya Pravda newspaper, the delegations of both countries will resume their negotiations in telematic format this Monday, March 21, in an attempt to bring the positions on the most controversial points closer together and bring the possible meeting between Putin and Zelensky closer.

Previously, the parties had met in person on three occasions: on February 28, March 3 and March 7. (I)