His remarks got here after Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a brand new proposal on Friday for the beginning of peace negotiations within the battle, which Moscow began with its all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Only a day forward of the peace convention, to which Russia was not invited, Putin articulated Russia’s calls for for peace: Ukraine should surrender the whole 4 areas that Russia occupies a part of, demilitarize, and drop its aspirations to hitch the NATO protection alliance.
“As quickly as Kyiv agrees to completely withdraw from Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia and begins this course of, we’re prepared to start out negotiations,” Putin mentioned on Friday.
Putin additionally demanded that the West raise all sanctions towards Russia, and that Moscow’s claims to the territories of Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson be acknowledged internationally.
“If Kyiv and West refuse, they are going to take full accountability for additional bloodshed,” Putin mentioned.
However Ukraine rejected his proposal. On the summit, Kyiv plans to speak with representatives of 92 nations and eight worldwide organizations to work on a joint plan on methods to deliver Ukraine’s 10-step peace method to life, Yermak mentioned.
