MADRID, 26 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Kremlin on Thursday called on the Government of Ukraine to “recognize the situation” on the ground and accept its demands in order to reach an agreement to end the conflict unleashed by the invasion order given on February 24 by the Russian president. , Vladimir Putin.
The spokesman for the Russian Presidency, Dimitri Peskov, has asked kyiv to “understand the ‘de facto’ situation, the real situation that exists,” according to the Russian news agency Interfax. “I repeat again. kyiv has to recognize the ‘de facto’ situation and assess it soberly,” Peskov settled.
During the day on Wednesday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko stated that the statements made by the President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, on the conditions for resuming the negotiation process “are not constructive.” “If you are setting conditions now, it makes us doubt the sincerity of your desire to find a peaceful solution (to the conflict),” he said.
Zelenski indicated during the day on Tuesday that he rejects the possibility of resuming negotiations with Russia unless Moscow accepts that its troops withdraw to the positions they occupied before February 24, when the invasion began. The Ukrainian president already said on Monday that he would only meet Putin at a possible future negotiating table, something Moscow described as “a public relations effort.”