Russian President Dmitry Peskov's spokesman spoke about the possibility of discussing the deoccupation of Crimea at a meeting of the two presidents. Peskov stressed that such a topic does not exist for the Kremlin.
This was reported by RBC-Ukraine with reference to the Russian agency RIA Novosti.
«There is no such issue for the Kremlin,» Peskov said, answering a question whether Russia is ready to discuss Crimea with Ukraine.
It should be noted that the face-to-face meeting of the two presidents is an initiative of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. He wants to discuss Crimea and the settlement of the military conflict in Donbas during talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
So, recently, Vladimir Zelensky noted that Putin's entourage is against the face-to-face format, because the talks «may end in an unexpected outcome for Russia». Russian media report that Vladimir Putin at a meeting with Vladimir Zelensky wants to discuss the lifting of sanctions and the possibility of including in the negotiations «LPR» and «DPR».
However, Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy head of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, said the day before that there was no point in contacting the Ukrainian leadership.
In politics, compromises are possible, sometimes some deviations from the established line, but not to the extent that a coordinated approach changes to the diametrically opposite one. From the decisions made. So, negotiations with them do not make sense at all.
