We are waiting for comments from the Ukrainian side.
Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko said that negotiations with Ukraine have been suspended because “Kyiv has actually left them”. The words of the official are quoted by Russian mass media.
“No, the talks are not continuing. Ukraine has actually withdrawn from the negotiation process. (They are not going – ed.) in any form,” the diplomat said.
According to Rudenko, the Ukrainian the party did not react to the draft peace treaty that Moscow sent to Kyiv.
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We will remind, on May 10 the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba declared that Ukraine changed the military purposes in the war with Russia and now seeks to expel Russian troops from the country completely . He added that “the picture of victory is an evolving concept.”
Kuleba later noted that Ukraine's position in the negotiations is getting tougher as a result of the achievements of the Armed Forces. The Minister stated that Kyiv would not tolerate any ultimatums from the enemy.
Why did Ukraine become the embodiment of the virtues that Russia ascribed to itself, and Russia – the embodiment of all the most cavernous things that exist in modern man? Read the details in Alexander Shcherba's article “Why is Russia losing the war?”.
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