Russia's promise to scale down military operations around Kyiv and northern Ukraine does not represent a ceasefire and talks on a formal agreement with Kyiv have a long way to go, Moscow's lead negotiator in peace talks said on Tuesday.
Russian negotiators earlier on Tuesday gave an undertaking to sharply scale back military activity around Ukraine's capital Kyiv and the northern city of Chernihiv, in the most tangible sign yet of progress towards a peace deal.
"This is not a ceasefire but this is our aspiration, gradually to reach a de-escalation of the conflict at least on these fronts," Vladimir Medinsky, head of the Russian team, said in an interview with the TASS news agency.
Medinsky said Russia had made a second major de-escalatory step by agreeing to a possible meeting of the two countries' presidents at the same moment that a peace agreement was initialled.
"However, to prepare such an agreement on a mutually acceptable basis, we still have a long way to go," he said.
- Reuters
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It's going to be a long drawn out war between Ukraine and Russia unless one party accepts defeat or agreed to the Russia demands.
2022-03-30 06:22
the longer the war the less farmers can plant their crops and this will impact next year's food supply since Ukraine is the world's bread basket
prepare for very high food inflation right into year 2023
2022-03-30 08:16
whether they drive tanks or hilux not important.. whats important is whether farmers can plant or not, which will affect our food prices.
2022-03-30 15:21
Yeah, very long drawn war in Ukraine! Putin turning Ukraine into another waste basket! It is what it is!
2022-03-30 16:50
Tobby
Yeah, Russia ran out of tanks, ran out of missiles and ran out of soldiers! So now, Russia will cut cost and convert Toyota Hilux into tanks!
2022-03-30 04:56