Advisor to the head of the president’s office, Mikhail Podolyak, believes that the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet later, but now their negotiations are “out of time”. He stated this in an interview with Radio Liberty
“I do not see that today it can be done literally tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, as Turkey says about it … Unfortunately, we need to wait a bit. The negotiations of the two presidents are still not at the time. A little later, probably, probably, probably They will be. But we want the position of Ukraine in these negotiations to be very, very powerful. We just have a strong -willed president: that is, he wants to come to negotiations and behave the way he should behave – as a leader of a truly global plan. and He should have a very powerful legal position. We must prepare it, ”Ukrainian Truth quotes him.
Podolyak noted that “the negotiation process is slower,” because after the Istanbul communique it became known about the war crimes of Russia in Ukrainian cities, as well as because of the desire of Russians to strengthen their positions: “So far I do not see the grounds for a full-time meeting” .
According to him, the Treaty of Ukraine and Russia “will prescribe the logic of the exit from the war: the ceasefire throughout Ukraine, the withdrawal of Russian troops from the territory of Ukraine, the exchange of prisoners.” “That is, there should be all points, how countries leave the war,” added Podolyak.
He explained that “there will no longer be any” “friendship and peace treaty,” but “we need to fix the positions that will never go into the territory of Ukraine for Russia to go into the territory of Ukraine.”