Ukrainian media learned about Moscow's demands in negotiations with Kiev

Flags of Russia and Ukraine in the conference room. File photoMOSCOW, March 1In negotiations with Ukraine, Russia demands from Kyiv to secure a non-aligned status at the parliamentary level and hold a referendum, the Ukrainian edition of Zerkalo Nedeli reports, citing diplomatic sources. Negotiations between the delegations of the Russian Federation and Ukraine on the territory of Belarus were held on Monday. The Russian delegation is headed by presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky. Earlier, the office of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that «the key issue of the negotiations is an immediate ceasefire and the withdrawal of troops from the territory of Ukraine.» Zelensky himself, following the meeting, said that so far there is no result that Ukraine needs. «In particular, the aggressor country demands denazification, the non-bloc status of Ukraine, fixed at the parliamentary level with a referendum, recognition of the ORDLO (certain regions of Donetsk and Luhansk regions — ed. ) within the administrative boundaries of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions,» Zerkala Nedeli said in a statement. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine early Thursday morning, February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, the civilian population is not in danger. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But there is no question of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian President emphasized.It is too early to assess the negotiations with Ukraine, Peskov said On Monday morning, more than 1.1 thousand objects were hit: airfields, command posts, radar stations, and so on. The territory around the Chernobyl (mothballed) and Zaporozhye (operating) nuclear power plants was taken under control. Eight years later, the North Crimean Canal was unblocked, and work is underway to restore water supply to the Crimea. The offensive is going on in several directions, Kyiv is blocked from the west. A detailed map of the regions of Ukraine in which the Russian military operates, however, has not yet been officially published. The RF Armed Forces have achieved air supremacy over the whole of Ukraine. According to the RF Ministry of Defense, there are dead and wounded among the Russian troops, but the losses among the Ukrainian troops and nationalists are many times higher. Exact figures have not yet been released. The Russian military department reports a number of cases of voluntary laying down of arms by Ukrainian troops — they are guaranteed safety and return to their families. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian security forces are deploying multiple launch rocket systems right in the residential areas of Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities. Putin called this a terrorist tactic.The development of the situation in the DPR and LPR — in the online report >>«Biden and NATO». How the world reacted to Russia's actions