Lavrov said Russia saw “greater dissemination” over Crimea and Donbas from Ukraine in the talks.
There is “movement forward” in the talks between Russia and Ukraine, Russia “saw a significant increase” on the issue of Crimea and Donbass, Ukraine’s non-nuclear and non-bloc status of Ukraine is already “realized as an absolute initiative,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. At the same time, he noted that the interest should continue, but so far there are no approved plans in this regard.
“We are not expected. There is progress in everything regarding the impossibility of identifying Ukraine as a bloc country, the impossibility of finding happiness in Ukraine in the North Atlantic Alliance, a non-nuclear, non-bloc electoral status, something that is now recognized as an absolute initiative,” the minister said to the press. – a conference following a discussion with Indian Foreign Minister Subramanyam Jaishankar (quote from “Interfax”).
“Equally, as we saw a large resolution of one reality, I mean detection with Crimea and Donbass,” he said.
As a result of the meeting in Istanbul, which took place on March 29, Vladimir Medinsky, who limited the Russian delegation, said that “Ukraine declared that it has complied with the basic requirements that Russia has adhered to for all these years.” At the same time, after the proposal of the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy recorded a video message stating that the issue of revising the borders of 1991 will not change.
On the course of the economic operation – in the online broadcast “Kommersant”