Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba MOSCOW, Feb 27 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba ruled out that peace would be the result of negotiations with the Russian side, but stressed that Kyiv was not going to «capitulate». Ukraine agreed on negotiations in the Gomel region, a Russian delegation is going there, presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky said earlier. Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov noted that this was preceded by a telephone conversation between President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Zelensky.NATO Secretary General supported Zelensky's decision to negotiate with Russia «There is nothing wrong with negotiations as such. And if the outcome of these negotiations is peace and an end to the war, this should be welcomed. But we — I want to make it clear — we will not surrender. We will not capitulate. We will not give up an inch of territory. This is not the goal of our struggle,» said Kuleba, whose speech was broadcast on the YouTube channel of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. According to Kuleba, the Ukrainian side at the talks intends to «listen» to the position of the Russian Federation and «say what it thinks about this war and Russia's actions.» Russian President Vladimir Putin announced early in the morning of February 24 that he had decided to conduct a special military operation to demilitarize Ukraine. In a televised address to the Russians, he said that the circumstances “require decisive and immediate action,” as the Donbass republics turned to Russia with a request for help. According to the Russian leader, all responsibility for the bloodshed will be on the conscience of the ruling regime in Kyiv. Later, the Russian Defense Ministry stressed that the Russian Armed Forces did not carry out any missile, air or artillery strikes on the cities of Ukraine: military infrastructure, air defense facilities, military airfields and aviation were disabled by high-precision weapons. The ministry assured that the civilian population is not in danger.
