The Kremlin announced this Saturday to deliver to Ukraine A list of demands to reach a high fire. “We have agreed to exchange lists of conditions of a high fire. The Russian part will prepare and deliver this list, and exchange it with the Ukrainian part,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, to a Tass journalist. “Perhaps it should not be announced what will include exactly, since the negotiations are still ongoing and must be behind closed doors,” added the Russian, which has not given greater detail of the conditions that the Russian document will include.
The announcement comes just one day after the direct meeting in Istanbul between the delegations of Russia and Ukraine, where both countries have agreed, among other things, an exchange of 2,000 prisoners (1,000 on each side) and the presentation of Russian and Ukrainian fire proposals. In addition, after the conversations, which lasted about two hours, the two sides set out again in another event, although without specifying where, when or who will go to it.
Possible face to face
During the intervention of the Russian spokesman, he dropped the possibility of a peace summit between the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and the president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, as long as they are achieved “Previous agreements”like the high fire. “We consider that this meeting can occur thanks to the joint work of the delegations of both parties, after reaching certain agreements,” said the spokesman, without specifying any detail.
“We take that proposal into consideration”
Portavoz del Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov
It should be noted that it was the Russian president who launched the glove of the face -to -face meeting, later decided to send a delegation to his name, which led the Ukrainian president to make the same decision and to criticize the position of Russia, The one you consider is interested in wasting time. “Our number priority is a high total, unconditional and honest fire. This must happen immediately to stop the killings and sit a solid base for diplomacy. If the Russian representatives in Istanbul did not even manage to agree that first step, obviously necessary, then it will be 100% clear that Putin continues to undermine diplomacy,” said the Ukrainian president in his account of ‘X’.
MAIN FOCOS DEL KREMLIN
Although no formal proposal has yet been presented, the main representative of the Russian part at the Istanbul meeting, Vladimir Mendinski, has rejected Ukraine as a sovereign country and has threatened that Moscow also controls the territory of the northern regions of Sumi and Járkov, where the Russians have already begun an offensive. Also, one of the main claims of Kremlin is that Ukrainian troops withdraw from the territory of the four Ukrainian regions annexed by Russia (although not in its entirety): Donetsk, Jeporiyia and Lugansk.
They have also requested other issues such as the recognition of the annexed Ukrainian regions such as the Crimean Peninsula, kyiv’s cessation of attempts to enter NATO, the demilitarization of Ukraine, guarantees of rights for the Russian speakers, the celebration of new elections (as Zelenski governs thanks to a martial law) or the cancellation of the international sanctions imposed against Russia after the beginning. of the conflict in 2022, more than three years ago.
