Russia and Ukraine provide the smartest assessment of progress in talks about war
2 min readRussian and Ukrainian officials provide the most optimistic assessment on Sundays progress in their talks about war in Ukraine, showing that there may be positive results in a few days.
Separately, the Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said Russia showed signs of willingness to be involved in substantive negotiations about ending conflicts where thousands of people died. More than 2.5 million people have escaped.
Ukraine said it was willing to negotiate, but did not give up or accept the ultimatum.
“We will not admit in principle in any position. Russia now understands this. Russia has started to speak constructively,” said Negotiator Ukraine and Advisor President Mykhailo Podolyak said in a video posted online.
“I think we will achieve some results literally in a matter of days,” he said.
The news agency Ria quoted a Russian delegation, Leonid Slutsky, said that talks had made substantial progress.
“According to my personal expectations, this progress can grow in the coming days to a shared position of the delegation, a document for signing,” Sutsky said.
No party shows whatever the scope of the agreement.
Their public comments were issued almost at the same time. They came on the 18th day of the war which began when Russian troops stormed Ukraine on February 24 in what the term kremlin of special military operations.
In a tweet, Podolya said Russia carefully listened to the Ukrainian proposal. “Our demands are – the end of the war and withdrawal of troops (Russia). I see the understanding and there is a dialogue,” he said.
Last Monday, the Chief of the Kremlin spokesman said Russia was ready to stop the military operation “a little” if Kyiv met with a list of conditions.
Among the demands is for Ukraine to recognize the Crimea as a Russian region, and recognize the separatist republic of Donetsk and Lugansk as independent countries.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told ABC last week that “we can discuss and find a compromise on how this region will live” add “we are not ready for capitalization”.
Three rounds of talks between the two parties in Belarus, last Monday, focused primarily on humanitarian problems and caused the opening of several corridors for civilians to escape.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday there were several “positive shifts” in the conversation, but did not describe. On Saturday Kremlin said discussions between Russian and Ukrainian officials had continued “in video format”.
Talks between Russian foreign ministers and Ukraine did not produce real progress towards the ceasefire last Thursday but analysts said the fact that they even met leaving the window open to end the war.
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