Russia will send Ukraine a proposal for permanent peaceful leveling when a great exchange of prisoners of war between the two parties is completed, The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday. According to the AFP report, TASR reports this.
Russia and Ukraine on Friday as part of the first phase so far the largest exchange of prisoners of war were released after 390 people. Both parties agreed to exchange “a thousand per thousand” last week in Istanbul, Turkey.
However, the Kremlin did not show that it would withdraw from its original demands for the end of the fighting, According to which Ukraine should, for example, give up ambitions to join NATO or to withdraw Russia’s territories to which it is entitled.
Moscow is currently preparing a “draft document that outlines the conditions for achieving a sustainable, permanent and comprehensive settlement agreement,” said Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. “As soon as the prisoners of war ends, we will be ready to hand over the Ukrainian party to the document,” added.
US President Donald Trump has been trying to convey to the end of the fighting in Ukraine from his entry into office, but so far he has not been able to force the Kremlin to any major concessions, Reminds AFP. Meanwhile, Moscow rejected the pressure of Europe to close the complete and unconditional ceasefire in Ukraine and continues to be more than three years of offensive, which has already claimed tens of thousands of victims.
