Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia and Ukraine had managed to achieve a “serious breakthrough” during negotiations in Istanbul, Turkey, but the situation had changed “dramatically” after the allegations of war crimes in Turkey. Ukrainian city of Bucha.
“In Istanbul, we achieved a major breakthrough, because our Ukrainian colleagues did not associate Ukraine’s international security and security requirements with a concept such as Ukraine’s ‘internationally accepted borders’,” the president said during a meeting with the Secretary-General of the United Nations. United, Antonio Guterres.
“But unfortunately, after we reached agreements and after our clearly demonstrated intentions to create favorable conditions for the continuation of the negotiations, we are faced with a provocation in the village of Bucha, to which the Russian army has nothing to do”, added Putin. .
“And the position of Ukraine’s negotiators on a new deal changed dramatically after that. They have moved away from their earlier intentions of putting aside issues of security guarantees and the territories of Crimea, Sevastopol and the Donbass republics. They just gave up on it,” he continued.
On Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that possible future negotiations in Turkey depended on Putin, while reiterating his willingness to participate in the talks.
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Zelensky, said on Thursday that the war in Ukraine “may end in direct talks” between heads of state, but warned he was waiting to assess how Russia’s military offensive in the east of the country will advance in the coming days.
Conversation with the UN Secretary General
According to a United Nations statement on Tuesday’s meeting, Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed “in principle” to the involvement of the UN and the International Committee for the Red Cross in the evacuation of citizens from the oil factory. Azovstal in Mariupol.
Secretary-General António Guterres also “reiterated the position of the United Nations on Ukraine, and they [Guterres e Putin] discussed proposals for humanitarian assistance and the evacuation of civilians from conflict zones.
Further talks between the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the Russian Ministry of Defense will take place at a later date, the UN concluded.
This is the first meeting and also the first conversation between the two leaders since the start of the war, and comes after Guterres last week called for separate meetings with Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president.
According to the spokeswoman for the United Nations, Eri Kaneko, the secretary-general is going to the meeting with a peace agenda, wanting to know what can be done to end the war.
“The Secretary-General’s message will be to discuss what steps can be taken to silence the guns and help people who want to get out safely,” he added.
Source: CNN Brasil
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