Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov gave more details on Friday about a proposal launched earlier in the day to send representatives to the Belarusian capital of Minsk to talk to Kiev. The Russian government alleges that the Ukrainian side responded with a proposal to meet in Warsaw and then withdrew from contact. Earlier this Friday afternoon, the Kremlin announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin had agreed to open negotiations with the Ukrainian government after the country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was ready to discuss “Ukraine neutrality”.
“We notified the Ukrainians of a proposal to talk about [o acordo] from Minsk,” said one of the messages from the Russian government.
Putin called Aleksandr Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, to organize talks with Ukraine, concludes the Kremlin message on the matter.
In detail, Peskov explained how the negotiation should take place. “Putin immediately called President [Alexander] Lukashenko and agreed that the Belarusian side and the president would do everything to better organize the arrival of the delegations and ensure their safety – this element is also important now – and the conditions to conduct these negotiations directly.”
In a phone call with reporters the spokesman said. “The Russian side immediately, on behalf of the president, formed a delegation of representatives from the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Presidential Administration. All this information has been brought to the attention of the Ukrainians,” he said.
Peskov added. “After a brief pause, the Ukrainians said they wanted to go to Warsaw. And after that they took a break and left the connection,” the spokesperson explained.
Before the Kremlin representative’s statements, Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych told CNN on Friday that the Ukrainian government is “considering the proposal”.
The Kremlin spokesman said the pause was accompanied by the deployment of multiple rocket launch systems in residential areas, including Kiev, by “nationalist elements”, something Peskov said the Kremlin considered “extremely dangerous”.
more context
Peskov’s statement echoed a statement made earlier in the day by the Russian military, which said – without evidence – that US military and intelligence advisers had instructed Ukrainian military leaders to place rocket artillery systems in residential areas to provoke fire. of return against the locals.
The US has observed at least 200 total missile launches since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a senior US defense official told reporters on Friday, adding that “some of these missiles that we have evaluated have impacted civilian residential areas”.
understand the conflict
After months of military escalation and intemperance on the Ukrainian border, Russia attacked the Eastern European country. At dawn this Thursday (24), Russian forces began to bomb several regions of the country – follow the repercussion live on CNN.
Hours earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized a “special military operation” in the Donbas region (eastern Ukraine, where the breakaway regions of Luhansk and Donetsk are located, which he recognized as independent).
What was seen in the following hours, however, was an attack on almost the entire Ukrainian territory, with explosions in several cities, including the capital Kiev.
According to Ukrainian officials, dozens of deaths have been confirmed in the armies of both countries.
In his speech before the attack, Putin justified the action by saying that Russia could not “tolerate threats from Ukraine”. Putin urged Ukrainian soldiers to “put down your weapons and go home”. The Russian leader further stated that he will not accept any kind of foreign interference.
This attack on the former Soviet neighbor threatens to destabilize Europe and involve the United States.
Russia has been tightening its military grip around Ukraine for the past year, amassing tens of thousands of troops, equipment and artillery at the country’s gates.
In recent weeks, diplomatic efforts to defuse tensions have been unsuccessful.
The escalation in the years-long conflict between Russia and Ukraine has triggered the continent’s biggest security crisis since the Cold War, raising the specter of a dangerous confrontation between Western powers and Moscow.
(From Sarah Marsh and Madeline Chambers of Reuters and Eliza Mackintosh of CNN)
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