Vladimir Zelensky. File photoMOSCOW, Apr 23Kyiv is working on Russia's response to a proposal for a settlement in Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. Earlier, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia had handed over to Ukraine a draft document with clear language worked out and now the ball is on the side of Kyiv. Zelensky at the same time stated that he had not seen the document transmitted by Russia. «They (Russia — ed.) conveyed messages, responses to the communiqué (draft agreement on the settlement in Ukraine — ed.), Our groups are working with them,» Zelensky said to the press conference. 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. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the President of Russia emphasized.
