"No ultimatum": Putin has made requirements for Ukraine for negotiations in Istanbul - Roszma

Kosachov, when asked by journalists, whether there was an opportunity to make progress in future Istanbul talks, he answered, remembering the experience of previous meetings that took place in 2022. According to him, even then, the parties were allegedly "could make some progress. " "The experience of the first Istanbul was and these negotiations were moving forward at some point.

It is known that more than a number of positions managed to reach an understanding and the document was parished by the head of the Ukrainian delegation before he was died," the Russian official said. According to Kosachev, the meaning of such negotiations again exists, as is the likelihood that the parties can achieve a certain result. However, this, he said, can only happen when Ukraine meets certain requirements.

"Only if the Ukrainian delegation appears in these negotiations with the mandate to give up some ultimatums and look for points, I am sure that we could move forward even further than it was done in March 2022," the official emphasized. Returning to the mention of negotiations in Istanbul in 2022, Kosachev added that the negotiations in 2025 will be slightly different, since during this time "the situation on the lines of collision" and the "position of Ukraine" has changed significantly.

It is worth noting that, probably, an "ultimatum", which the Russian politician speaks, is the response of President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky to the proposal of the head of the Kremlin Vladimir Putin. The Ukrainian leader spoke of the need for a complete ceasefire to achieve the result in negotiations. We will remind, on May 12 Roszmi passed the words of the Russian high -ranking official Grigory Karasin, who called Zelensky's proposal "brazen ultimatum".