MOSCOW, Jun 1. Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said it was necessary to carefully prepare the final document before talking about the meeting between Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky.
"Our position and the position of the Russian President on the meeting with Zelensky is well known… A priori, no one excludes such a meeting, never excluded it,» he also told reporters.
The Kremlin spokesman added that work on the treaty had stopped a long time ago, and since then there has been no progress on this issue. Yesterday, Zelensky, in a conversation with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, expressed a desire to meet with Putin, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said.May 31, 09:38The Pentagon revealed the forecast for the end of the crisis in UkraineRussian-Ukrainian consultations began at the end of February: the delegations held two face-to-face meetings in Belarus, after which it was decided to continue them daily via video link. At the end of March, another round of negotiations took place in Istanbul, as a result of which Kyiv handed over written proposals for a future treaty. In response, Russia met Ukraine halfway and significantly reduced hostilities in the Kiev and Chernigov directions. In addition, Moscow offered to hold a meeting between Putin and Zelensky at the same time as the initialing of the treaty by the foreign ministers.May 23, 19:39 Special military operation in Ukraine Neutrality of Ukraine can be considered the ultimate goal, Kissinger believes However, later Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Ukraine was refusing its own proposals and creating numerous provocations in order to slow down the negotiation process. The official representative of the department, Maria Zakharova, stated that Kyiv had interrupted negotiations and had not yet responded to Russian proposals for the text of the draft treaty dated April 15. On May 14, Vladimir Putin, in a conversation with Finnish President Sauli Niiniste, said that negotiations with Ukraine were actually suspended. Russia launched a special operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the main tasks of the first stage have already been completed — Ukraine's combat potential has been significantly reduced. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.