According to the Russian presidential spokesman, Kiev will use any halt in the special operation to regroup and then attack the Russian military
The ceasefire regime will not be in effect during the negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow, as Ukrainian forces may use this time to regroup. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said this, RBC reported.
"No. The fact is that the stoppage of the operation, any stoppage, is used by nationalist units to regroup in order to continue attacks on the Russian military. This has happened repeatedly, it certainly complicates the process," Peskov responded to a question about a cease-fire during the negotiations.
As a reminder, the negotiations began on February 27; the first three rounds were held in a face-to-face format on the territory of Belarus. The fourth round began in the morning of March 14 in a videoconference format. During the first day the negotiations lasted for several hours, then there was a technical break. On March, 15 the negotiations were resumed and continued on March, 16.
The office of the president of Ukraine stated that the negotiations came to a "fork". According to Oleksiy Arestovych, advisor to the head of the Ukrainian presidential office, if the scenario is successful, the sides can conclude a peace agreement within one or two weeks, the deadline being the end of May. He named the continuation of hostilities as another option.
At the same time, the head of the Russian delegation, presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, said that representatives of Russia and Ukraine had come as close as possible to discussing Ukraine's neutral status and its non-accession to NATO. According to him, there are still nuances concerning security guarantees for Ukraine "in addition to those available in the case of its refusal to join the NATO bloc.
