Businessman Roman Abramovich MOSCOW, Apr 16Bloomberg and the American magazine Fortune, citing sources, claim that Russian businessman Roman Abramovich visited Kyiv to try to intensify Russian-Ukrainian negotiations. Abramovich allegedly «met with Ukrainian negotiators to discuss ways to resume negotiations,» unnamed informed sources told the publications . The exact date of the visit is not specified.Zelensky: the destruction of the military in Mariupol will put an end to the negotiationsAccording to Bloomberg, a representative of Abramovich said that «he is not in Kyiv», refusing to comment further. The Ukrainian side, as indicated, also refused to comment. As the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov stated earlier, Abramovich is involved in ensuring certain contacts between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, but is not an official member of the Russian delegation. Abramovich's participation in contacts between Russia and Ukraine has been approved by both sides, Peskov noted. 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. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
