President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. Archival photoMOSCOW, March 19 Commenting on the negotiations with the Russian Federation, Volodymyr Zelensky said that the time has come to meet and restore the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
"The time has come to meet. Time to speak. It's time to restore territorial integrity and justice for Ukraine",» Zelensky said in a video message.
After the start of the special operation, the Russian Federation and Ukraine held three rounds of negotiations in Belarus, the Russian delegation is headed by presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky. Now negotiations in this format are being held daily via video link. Medinsky said the day before that the neutral status of Ukraine and its non-entry into NATO are topics on which Moscow and Kyiv have brought their positions in the negotiations as close as possible. According to him, Moscow and Kyiv are «halfway» on the issue of demilitarization of Ukraine within the framework of the ongoing negotiation process. Commenting on the topic of denazification at the talks, Medinsky said that representatives of Kyiv believe that they do not have Nazi formations and this is not a topic for modern Ukraine. He also noted that the people of Donbass should decide for themselves the issue of managing the territories where they live. UkraineRussia launched a military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» To this end, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DNR and LNR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian President emphasized. really need denazification