The Ukrainian side adheres to the Istanbul Communique and has not changed its position in negotiations with Russia, despite the statement of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. This was announced by the head of the negotiation group David Arakhamia in Telegram.

“The only difference is that we do not take into account all the additional issues that were not included in the Istanbul Communique.. Perhaps this caused a misinterpretation of the current state of the negotiation process,” said Arakhamia..

According to him, now negotiations on an agreement on security guarantees for Ukraine continue online..

Earlier, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov said that Ukraine is constantly changing its position in the negotiations.

Recall that the head of the legal group at the negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, Oleksandr 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 have not yet been resolved on them..

Advisor to the head of the Presidential Office Mikhail Podolyak said that the issue of Donbass will be discussed by the Presidents of Ukraine Volodymyr 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.