Go to the media bankChairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutsky. File photoMOSCOW, Sep 5At a meeting with students in Izhevsk, the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, Leonid Slutsky, shared the details of the negotiations with Ukraine: they were disrupted, since Kyiv did not abandon Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych, now they can be resumed, but on Moscow's terms. «After the start of the SVO, during negotiations with «Ukraine at some point almost managed to reach an agreement. The Ukrainian side did not want to just give up such national heroes as Bandera or Shukhevych. But in the end, the negotiations were disrupted. Now they can be resumed, but only on Moscow's terms. We will finish only after cleansing all this Nazi evil spirits,» Slutsky was quoted as saying by the LDPR RIA Novosti press service.Peskov announced Moscow's readiness for negotiations with Kiev, 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 Kyiv 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. Russian-Ukrainian consultations began in late February: the delegations held two face-to-face meetings in Belarus, after which it was decided to continue them on a daily basis via videoconferencing. At the end of March, the delegations held another round of talks in Istanbul. As a result, the head of the Russian delegation at the talks, aide to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky, said that Ukraine had submitted its written proposals for a future treaty, which Moscow considers a step forward, and in general, Kyiv for the first time in many years showed a desire to negotiate. 
Yushchenko told how EU leaders forced Zelensky to negotiate. The Russian side, in response, took two steps towards Ukraine. First, it was decided to significantly reduce hostilities in the Kiev and Chernigov directions. Secondly, Moscow suggested that the meeting between President Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Zelensky should take place simultaneously with the initialing of the treaty by the foreign ministers. However, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov later said that Ukraine was refusing its own proposals and creating numerous provocations in order to slow down the negotiation process. In particular, according to the minister, Ukraine presented its draft agreement with Russia, which is a departure from the provisions fixed at the meeting in Istanbul regarding Crimea, and also changed the provision on military exercises without mentioning the need to obtain Russia's consent.
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