Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near KievMOSCOW, March 15 Aleksey Arestovich, adviser to the head of Vladimir Zelensky's office, believes that a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine can be reached at the earliest — within one or two weeks, at the latest — in May. «I think that no later than May, early May, we should most likely reach a peace agreement, or maybe be, and much faster. Let's see, I take the deadline. Now a fork, now or within a week or two there will be a peace agreement quickly with the withdrawal of troops, with everything else … or in the near future we will agree — a week, two, or then already until the end of May after another round, an attempt to make war,» Arestovich said on air on the YouTube channel of journalist Mark Feigin. The fourth round of talks between Russia and Ukraine took place on Monday via video conference. Following their results, Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of Zelensky's office, said that a technical pause had been taken, negotiations would continue on Tuesday. Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on 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 Defense Ministry, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. 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 President of Russia emphasized.
