Today's meeting was called constructive.
After the talks between Ukraine and Russia, the head of the Russian delegation Vladimir Medinsky announced a decision to “radically reduce hostilities” in the Kiev and Chernihiv areas.
“The government assumes that a decision will be made in Kyiv and conditions will be created for further normal work,” he said.
Medinsky also called today's talks “constructive.”
It should be noted that the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine also reported today that the occupying forces began to withdraw certain units of their armed formations from the territories of Kyiv and Chernihiv regions. However, there is still a high risk of the occupiers attacking military and civilian infrastructure.
Medinsky also noted that the delegation will pass all proposals of the Ukrainian side to Vladimir Putin. His meeting with President Vladimir Zelensky is possible at the same time as the preliminary signing of the Russia-Ukraine agreement at the Foreign Ministry level.
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The head of the legal group at the talks 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 agree, 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 delegations David Arahamiya told who Ukraine wants to see as signatories of security guarantees – members of the UN Security Council. He also said that the document will not apply to the temporarily occupied territories of Donbass and Crimea, as issues have not yet been resolved.
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