Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said the US has no evidence that Ukraine-Russia talks are progressing effectively, primarily because Washington sees no " CNN writes about it.

" We are focused on the latter,"

He also reacted to the message about the reduction of hostilities around Kyiv, warning that in this way Moscow could try to "

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The US Secretary of State appealed to Russia, urging her to withdraw troops, cease fire and continue negotiations.

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Recall that the head of the legal group at the negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, Alexander Chaly, said that security guarantees should be analogous to Article 5 of NATO. This means that an attack on our state will be considered an attack on all signatories.. Chaly noted that if they are agreed upon, our side agrees to permanent neutrality, non-alignment and non-nuclear. But nothing should contradict Ukraine's right to join the EU.

The head of the Ukrainian delegation, David Arakhamia, told whom Ukraine wants to see as signatories of security guarantees - member countries of the UN Security Council.

He also said that the document will not apply to the temporarily occupied territories of Donbass and Crimea, since issues regarding them have not yet been resolved..

Advisor to the head of the Presidential Office Mikhail Podolyak said that the issue of Donbass will be discussed by the Presidents of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky and the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. A separate item will also include the issue of Crimea. Our side proposed fixing the positions of Ukraine and Russia in relation to the peninsula for 15 years.