Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow is grateful to Turkey for organizing Russian-Ukrainian negotiations, however, although they began without intermediaries, continued without them “sluggishly and unauthorizedly.”
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“You know that the negotiation process began without intermediaries. And it continues very sluggishly and irregularly without intermediaries. Although, of course, we are very highly appreciated and grateful for efforts, for example, our Turkish colleagues, for creating the necessary conditions for that meeting who was in Istanbul. There were even the understandings we needed, which were then disavowed with the Ukrainian side, ”the Kommersant quotes the words of Peskov.
On the eve of the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrel said that the EU could not become an intermediary in the negotiations of Russia and Ukraine, since Russia will not agree to this. He called the UN best intermediary, although he noted Turkey’s contribution to the negotiation process. The Russian Foreign Ministry today reported that Russia and Ukraine are working to maintain dialogue.
The last full -time meeting of the delegations of Russia and Ukraine was held in Istanbul on March 29. However, after the events in Buch, the negotiation process stalled, the parties accused each other of this.