“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he is ready to negotiate Ukraine’s neutral status. (Russian President) Putin has said from the beginning that the aim of the military operation is to help the (separatist regions) DLR and LLR and to demilitarize and denacify Ukraine. These are necessary steps towards neutrality status, “said Peskov.
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Ukrainian President Zelensky has previously called for talks. “I want to address the President of the Russian Federation once again. Fighting is taking place all over Ukraine. “Come and sit at the negotiating table to end the deaths,” he said.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had previously said that Moscow was ready to negotiate with Kiev only after Ukraine had laid down its arms, and that Zelensky had wasted his earlier opportunities to negotiate. But on Friday, Peskov called Zelenský’s challenge a positive step.
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Russian invasion with an unclear goal
The Russians justify their invasion of Ukraine by seeking demilitarization and denazification, although they have not explained what they mean and how such a process should take place. The occupation of the separatist regions of the People’s Republic of Luhansk and the Donetsk People’s Republic was followed by a military invasion on Thursday.
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