Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow is not going to stop hostilities during the talks between Russia and Ukraine. He is quoted by Russian media.
According to him, the fire will be stopped only when "
" But if during the first round, for the period of the very first round of negotiations, when the Ukrainian side proposed and we agreed to hold a contact of delegations, and if then the president gave the command to take a break in hostilities and conduct a special military operation, then when we were convinced that the Ukrainians. Until a final agreement is reached, until it is signed,"
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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.