A meeting between the Russian presidents Vladimir Putin and the Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky is “possible” whenever Moscow and kyiv would find “agreements” in advance, the Kremlin said this Saturday, May 17, the day after the first direct peace conversations between the two camps since 2022.
“This meeting is possible, the fruit of the work of the two parties and the conclusion of agreements. But only after the agreements between the two fields,” said Russian presidency spokesman Dmitri Peskov.
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At the same time, the Kremlin insisted on the need to exchange prisoners between Russia and Ukraine. The only condition for forplers between the two nations to continue, according to Moscow.
“It remains to be done what the delegations have agreed yesterday. It is, of course, a matter of exchange (prisoners in the format) 1,000 against 1,000,” he insisted the spokesman for the Russian presidency, Dmitri Peskov.
On Friday, despite the absences of Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, Russian and Ukrainian negotiators gathered in Istanbul on the occasion of Faulers. If they did not reach a high fire agreement, the two countries agreed to a “massive prisoner exchange” of war.
Last April, more than 240 prisoners were exchanged between Russia and Ukraine. According to a BBC count Directed at the end of 2024, the two countries have carried out 59 exchanges of prisoners since the beginning of the great large -scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
Source: BFM TV
