The Kremlin connects the prospects for the meeting with the coordination of memoranda of the ceasefire, the options of which were prepared by Kyiv and Moscow. Zelensky and Putin should meet with ready -made documents, Peskov believes.
“All the work that should be carried out as coordinated by memorandums is the preparation of the meeting … But without how to do this difficult work, it is hardly appropriate to make a substantive work – it is hardly advisable. Otherwise, the highest level will have to be done by this complex and very capacious work,” said the speaker of the President of the Russian Federation.
The negotiations of Ukraine and the Russian Federation will meet in Istanbul on July 23 in the afternoon. The beginning of the meeting is planned at about 19.00. Negotiations will take place in the Chiragan Palace in the Besiktash area.
Delegation of Ukraine in the new round of negotiations The head of the National Security and Defense Council Rustem Umarov will be headed. In addition to him, the group will include representatives of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Intelligence and the Presidential office. The composition of the Russian group Not changedshe is headed by Putin's assistant Vladimir Medinsky, whose role is considered “mocking.”
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After the first round of negotiations between Kiev and Moscow in Istanbul, US President Donald Trump held a telephone conversation with the illegitimate President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. According to the results of the call, the head of the White House said that Ukraine and the Russian Federation will “immediately begin to stop the cessation of war. Putin said Kyiv and Moscow They plan to prepare a document On the possible upcoming peace agreement. His spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that The deadlines for preparing this document “there is no and cannot be.”
Later, Minister of Defense of Ukraine Rustem Umarov, who headed the delegation of Ukraine to participate in negotiations with the Russian Federation, The document with the Ukrainian position was handed over to the head of the Russian delegation to Vladimir Medinsky.
Russian “Memorandum”, the text of which on June 2 after Negotiations in Istanbul published the propagandists of the Kremlin, Contains three chapters with two options for a ceasefire and 31 points. The document is spelled out, in particular, a truce “for two to three days”, the requirements for the withdrawal of the Armed Forces from the Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions; “International recognition” of these territories, as well as Crimea, Russian; prohibition of reception and placement of nuclear weapons in Ukraine; rejection of foreign military assistance, including reconnaissance data; The presidential elections and the Verkhovna Rada, which supposedly should take place no later than 100 days after the abolition of martial law.
