Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the presidential office, said that the Ukrainian delegation at the Istanbul talks proposed fixing the positions of Ukraine and Russia in relation to the peninsula for 15 years.. During this time countries will hold consultations.

" We propose to fix the proposal of Ukraine and Russia, and for 15 years to hold bilateral negotiations on the status of Crimea and Sevastopol separately,"

Separately, the adviser added that during this time neither Ukraine nor Russia would use military or armed forces to resolve the issue of Crimea..

The leader of the Crimean Tatars Mustafa Dzhemilev commented on the issue of Crimea.

He stated that if Russia enters into negotiations on Crimea, it recognizes that it has occupied the peninsula under the Geneva Conventions.. According to him, the Ukrainian concept for the liberation of these territories does not provide for a forceful scenario..

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Earlier, a member of the Ukrainian delegation Oleksandr Chaly, following the results of the negotiations, said that the agreement on security guarantees is a possible diplomatic format for ending the war.. And these guarantees should be similar to Article 5 of NATO.