Only “diplomacy” will end the war in Ukraine, Zelensky said

Finally [du conflit] would be diplomatic, he said in an interview with Ukrainian television channel ICTV. The war will be bloody, resist, but will surely end in diplomacy.Discussions will definitely take place between Ukraine and Russia. I don’t know what format: there are moderators, they don’t, in a wider circle, at the presidential leveldid he declare.

There are things we can only achieve at the negotiating table. We want to give everything back as before the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, that Russia does not wanthe added, without giving further details.

The results of these conversations-its subject matter may vary depending on the time of the meeting – has to be righteous for Ukraine, underlined the President.

Referring to a document on the security guarantees of Ukraine, he said that it will be signed by Friends and partners of Ukraine, without Russiawhile in parallel is held a bilateral discussion with Russia.

He also recalled that it made sine qua non conditions for the resumption of talks that Ukrainian soldiers buried in the vast Azovstal metallurgical complex in Mariupol, in southeastern Ukraine, were not killed by the Russian army.

gold russian troops gave the possibility, found a way for these people to get out of life of Azovstal, he said. The most important thing for me was to save as many people and soldiers as possible.

On May 17, an adviser to the Ukrainian president, Mykhaïlo Podoliak, indicated that the talks between Moscow and kyiv were restingconsidering that Moscow has shown no misunderstanding of the situation.

The next day, the Kremlin accused Ukraine oftotal reluctance to negotiate with Russia to end the aggression on Ukraine.

Several meetings between negotiators from both sides took place, but did not yield concrete results. The last meeting between the heads of the delegations – Vladimir Medinski on the Russian side and David Arahamia for Ukraine – began on April 22, according to Russian news agencies.

After failing to control kyiv and its region, the Russian army is now focusing its efforts on an offensive against eastern Ukraine, where fighting is fierce.