
MOSCOW, Mar 26The purpose of the negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv is clear: for Russia, this is fixing the results that the special operation is aimed at, for Ukraine, first of all, preserving as a state and ensuring further development, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with RIA Novosti. «The purpose of these negotiations is clear — to fix all the results that … the special operation is aimed at. Namely: the neutral status of Ukraine, its demilitarization, the refusal to use the Nazi ideological laws that were adopted by Ukraine,» he said. Medvedev added that «no matter what they say, These are precisely the laws that divide people into nationalities.» «Some people are called people of the correct nationality, and some are taken out of brackets. And a number of other positions that the Russian Federation considers it right to achieve,» he said. «Ukraine has its own tasks that it pursues during these negotiations First of all, to survive as a state and ensure its further development,» Medvedev added. Russia launched a 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.» According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR forces are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia emphasized. Kuleba. At the moment, the negotiators continue to contact via videoconferencing. The Russian delegation, as in face-to-face meetings, is headed by Vladimir Medinsky, Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation.

