Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 31. The Russian media quoted Russian Presidential Press Secretary Peskov as saying on March 30 that Ukraine specifically expressed its proposals and submitted documents during the negotiations on the 29th, which is a positive factor. Apart from this, the Russian side has not seen any breakthrough in the negotiations.There is still a lot of work to be done。
The leaders of Germany, the United States, France, the United Kingdom and Italy held a conference call,Five leaders agree to maintain heavy-handed sanctions on Russiacontinue to actively provide assistance to Ukraine, and call for an early ceasefire and a diplomatic solution to the conflict.
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On the 30th, the head of the Russian negotiating delegation and assistant to the president, Mekinsky, said on a TV program that Ukraine for the first time on the 29th showed its willingness to meet some important conditions to establish normal and good-neighborly relations with Russia in the future. Mekinsky said that the written proposal submitted by Ukraine to Russia on the same day involved Ukraine’s refusal to join NATO, to establish its neutrality, non-alignment and denuclearization status, not to deploy foreign military bases and troops in its territory, and to give up weapons of mass destruction. , and conduct military exercises only with the consent of security guarantors including Russia.
Mekinsky stressed that if Kyiv fulfilled all the above obligations, the threat of NATO building an anti-Russian bridgehead on Ukrainian territory would be eliminated.
Ukrainian negotiator and chairman of the parliamentary group of the Ukrainian People’s Servant Party, Arahamia, said on the 30th that it is impossible for Ukraine to conclude a peace agreement with the Russian army before it withdraws from Ukraine, and it is impossible to hold a referendum.
Both Russia and Ukraine said on the 30th that the Russian army is redeploying troops in the direction of Kyiv and Chernihiv.
This is a ruble banknote taken in Moscow, the capital of Russia, on March 24.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Bai Xueqi
In the face of unprecedented Western sanctions against Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on the 23rd that Russia will switch to rubles when supplying natural gas to “unfriendly” countries and regions such as EU member states.
Russian State Duma Chairman Volodin said on the 30th that the settlement of commodities in rubles should be expanded to crude oil, grains, metals, fertilizers, coal and timber. However, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Peskov emphasized that the ruble settlement mechanism will not be launched immediately on March 31.
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On March 23, local residents queued to receive humanitarian supplies in Mariupol.Published by Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Victor)
The leaders of Germany, the United States, France, the United Kingdom and Italy held a conference call on the 29th. According to a statement issued by the German federal government, the leaders of the five countries agreed to maintain high-handed sanctions against Russia, continue to actively provide assistance to Ukraine, and called for an early ceasefire and a diplomatic solution to the conflict. The five leaders also discussed energy security and energy prices.
Meanwhile, the expulsion of diplomats between Russia and some European countries is still ongoing. The Netherlands, Belgium and Ireland on the 29th asked 42 Russian diplomats to leave by a deadline. Russia announced the expulsion of 10 diplomats from the three Baltic countries in Russia, in response to the previous three countries’ expulsion of Russian embassy diplomats.
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