MOSCOW, March 31 There is no clear time frame for the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Zelensky , we must first finalize the treaty, said the press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov. «In this regard, nothing really has changed, we have previously said that the summit meeting should be preceded by the finalization of work on the text of the treaty, and the endorsement or initialing of this text on the part of high-ranking officials, only then can we talk about a summit meeting. I would not give any clear framework,» Peskov said. 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», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. On March 29, another round of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations took place in Istanbul. The meeting was held at the Dolmabahce Palace closed to the press and lasted about three hours. The Russian delegation, as in previous rounds, was headed by Vladimir Medinsky, Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation. Following the results of the talks, he, in particular, said that the Russian Federation, in the course of a special operation in Ukraine, is significantly reducing military activity in the Kiev and Chernihiv directions. Medinsky also said that a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Zelensky is possible simultaneously with the initialing of the peace treaty by the foreign ministers of the two countries. that plans to negotiate with Putin and Zelensky
