Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to send a delegation to Belarus to take part in negotiations with the Ukrainian side in Minsk, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.
“As is known, the president of Ukraine, [Vladímir] Zelensky today expressed his readiness to address Ukraine’s neutral status. Initially, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that the objective of the operation is to help the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics, among other things, through the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine. And this is actually an integral component of the neutral status,” the spokesperson said.
Peskov then noted that the Russian head of state “is ready to send to Minsk a Russian delegation at the level of representatives of the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the President’s Administration for negotiations with the Ukrainian delegation.”
In this context, the spokesman declared that Putin held a telephone conversation this Friday with his Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko, who, in turn, asserted that “he will be willing to create all the necessary conditions for the arrival of the delegations, the guarantee of their safety and integrity and the holding of the aforementioned negotiations”.
Zelenski offered this Friday a new message where he indicated that he is willing to negotiate to stop the Russian military operation in the country.
“I would like to address the President of the Russian Federation once again. Fighting is taking place throughout Ukraine. Let’s sit at the negotiating table to stop the death of people,” said the president.
