This will only happen when a “final agreement” is reached.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov stated that Moscow is not going to stop fighting during Russia-Ukraine talks. It is quoted by Russian media.
According to him, the fire will be stopped only when “a final agreement is reached”.
“The president has repeatedly stressed that we prefer negotiations. But if during the first round, during the very first round of talks, when the Ukrainian side offered and we agreed to contact delegations, and if then the president ordered the pause in hostilities and conduct special military operation, when we were convinced that the Ukrainians were not going to reciprocate, it was decided that there will be no pauses for the next rounds of talks. Until a final agreement is reached until it is signed, “Lavrov said.
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Recall, following the talks on March 29, the head of the legal group at the talks between Ukraine and Russia Oleksandr Chaly said that security guarantees should be analogous to NATO Article 5. This means that an attack on our state will be considered an attack on all signatories. Chaly also 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 – member states of the UN Security Council. He also said that the document will not apply to the temporarily occupied territories of Donbass and Crimea, as there are still unresolved issues.
Adviser to the Chairman of the OP Mykhailo Podoliak said that the issues of Donbass will be discussed by the Presidents of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. A separate item will also address the issue of Crimea . Our side has proposed to fix the positions of Ukraine and Russia on the peninsula for 15 years.
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