Ukraine is ready for the next round of negotiations with Russia, but requires Moscow to provide a memorandum in advance with its conditions of the end of the war, On Wednesday evening, Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustev Umerov, who led a delegation of Kiev at recent direct interviews of opposing countries in Istanbul, Turkey. The Umiors reacted to Russia’s proposal for their delegations to meet the next June 2 in the same place as the last time. According to the AFP report, TASR reports this.
Russian diplomacy chief Sergei Lavrov had previously suggested to make Representatives of Russia and Ukraine met again next Monday. According to Lavrov, the Russian delegation is prepared by the Ukrainian side in Istanbul to introduce a memorandum, which outlines the conditions of Moscow to end the war in Ukraine. Russia in the memorandum explained its attitude to “all aspects of reliable overcoming the underlying causes” of the conflict, said the head of Russian diplomacy in a statement.
„We do not resist further meetings with the Russians and are waiting for their memorandum, ” He introduced the UMERS on the Network X. “The Russian side has at least four days to set off to provide us with its document for assessment,” added the Ukrainian Minister, saying that Kiev has already sent his conditions, but Moscow continued to “Hist”.
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported shortly afterwards that Lavrov phoned with his American counterpart Marc Rubi and informed him about the preparations of “specific designs for the next round of direct Russian-Ukrainian interviews in Istanbul”. Rubio in the call, according to the Russian agency TASS, stressed the goal of US President Donald Trump’s administration quickly to end the conflict and said Washington is ready to help bridge the differences between the positions of both sides.
The first direct Russian-Ukrainian negotiations after more than three years were held in Istanbul on 16 May. The Ukrainian delegation was led by Ukrainian Defense Minister Rusta UMER, Russian Vladimir Medinsky, who is a collaborator of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin.
Their only concrete result was an agreement of Russia and Ukraine that they would replace each other after 1,000 prisoners of war, which actually happened over the past weekend. In addition, Moscow stated that it will develop a memorandum, which will define its peace agreement, timing and details of a possible ceasefire.
Medinsky on Wednesday on the telegram He stated that the Russian side is ready to “start a fundamental, factual discussion on each of the points of the package of agreements on a possible ceasefire”.
Reuters previously referring to its resources wrote that Putin makes the end of the war in Ukraine with a written commitment to Western leaders that NATO will not be more expanded to the east, as well as by abolishing part of anti -Russian sanctions. This would mean the exclusion of the future membership of Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova in NATO.
