Russia and Ukraine in Spat over Proposed June Peace Talks After Trump Issues Deadline

Russia, Ukraine take spat to media ahead of new talks

Despite prospects for direct diplomatic talks on June 2 in Istanbul, Russia and Ukraine remain in a spat over the peace memorandums outlining prerequisites for ending the war to be discussed there.Russian FM Sergey Lavrov originally proposed the talks on Wednesday. By Thursday, Russia said it had not received a reply from Kyiv about attending. Instead, prominent Ukrainian officials are publicly pressing Russia to produce a peace memorandum ahead…

Russia and Ukraine in spat over proposed June peace talks after Trump issues deadline

The Kremlin said Kyiv’s calls for Russia to release its ceasefire memorandum before talks in June were ‘non-constructive’

Ukraine's request to hand over the memorandum with Russian proposals before the new meeting proposed in Istanbul on 2 June is not constructive. As the spokesman for the Kremlin Dmitry Peskov said. (ANSA). (ANSA)

🔊 Listen to this news Russia has decided not to hand over the memorandum of understanding that Ukraine had requested. Meanwhile, both countries are preparing to continue negotiations behind closed doors on June 2 in Istanbul. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has stated that the conditions for a ceasefire will not be publicly discussed. For his part, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has questioned the existence of this document and called f…

Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov said that these kinds of demands are not "constructive" and stressed that there is no intention to advance the conditions for a ceasefire that the Russian side intends to present during the next meeting in the Turkish city.

Dmitri Peskov described the Ukrainian side's demand as "non-constructive" — "immediately to transmit the memorandum".