During Friday's talks in Istanbul, the Russian delegation presented to representatives of Ukraine several conditionswhose fulfillment expects before making a decision to suspend the weapon.
Moscow demanded Ukraine's adoption of neutral statuswithout the presence of foreign troops or weapons of mass destruction on its territory, official waiver of claims for reparations and recognition of the illegal annexation of Crimea and four occupied circuitsalthough they are not fully controlled by the Russian forces – Bloomberg said.
The first such conversations in years
The Russian delegation stated that Russian leader Vladimir Putin would agree to the suspension of the weapon only after Ukraine withdraws its troops from the Craperson, Donetsk, Lugansk and Zaporoski districts and the transfer of them to Russia. The Kremlin also demands the international recognition of all five parts of Ukraine (including Crimea) as part of the Russian Federation.
Conversations of the delegation of Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul were The first direct conversations of representatives of the authorities of both countries in three years. The minister of defense of the Ukrainian died, and Russian was headed by Vladimir Miedinski, adviser to Vladimir Putin.
Diesov informed that during talks a Ukrainian and Russian delegation discussed the possibility of exchanging prisoners in the dimension of 1000 per 1000 people. The parties also talked about the suspension of the weapon and the preparation of the potential meeting of Wołodymyr Zelanski with Putin.
