Russia will achieve its goal of guaranteeing Ukraine’s neutral status and it will also prefer to do it through talks, said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.
Moscow’s aims do not include overthrowing the Kyiv government and it hopes to achieve more significant progress in the next round of talks with Ukraine, Ms. Zakharova told a briefing, adding that Russia’s military operation was going strictly in line with its plan.
Her comments came soon after Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed his country was no longer insisting on joining the NATO and that he was open for a compromise on the Donetsk and Luhansk breakaway republics that were recognised as independent by Russia.
The Russian Foriegn Ministry also promised that there are progress being made in the talks with Ukraine.
To end the fighting Russia and Ukraine officilas will be meeting on the Belarus-Poland border.
Ms. Zakharova said another round of talks would be focused on humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians. The Army’s aim is “not to occupy Ukraine, or the destruction of its statehood, or the overthrow of the government. It is not directed against the civilian population,” Ms. Zakharova said.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin had said that he sent troops in Ukarine to “de-nazify” the country.
Ms. Zakharova, during the briefing, accused the Kyiv authorities of blocking efforts to evacuate civilians. “Information about humanitarian corridors is deliberately not communicated to the population,” she said. “Persons wishing to leave for Russia are forced to evacuate in the western direction.”
Russia and Ukraine have agreed a day-long ceasefire on Wednesday around a series of evacuation corridors to allow civilians to escape fighting.
Moscow said this week it would set up evacuation corridors, but Kyiv said the proposed routes were unacceptable because some led to Russia.
Ms. Zakharova claimed that around two million Ukrainians want to be evacuated to Russia.Russia and Ukraine have agreed a day-long ceasefire on Wednesday around a series of evacuation corridors to allow civilians to escape fighting.
Moscow said this week it would set up evacuation corridors, but Kyiv said the proposed routes were unacceptable because some led to Russia.
Ms. Zakharova claimed that around two million Ukrainians want to be evacuated to Russia.
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