Russia has informed Ukraine it is able to halt navy operations “in a second” if Kyiv meets an inventory of circumstances, the Kremlin spokesman mentioned on Monday.
Dmitry Peskov mentioned Moscow was demanding that Ukraine stop navy motion, change its structure to enshrine neutrality, acknowledge Crimea as Russian territory, and recognise the separatist republics of Donetsk and Lugansk as unbiased states.
It was probably the most express Russian assertion to this point of the phrases it needs to impose on Ukraine to halt what it calls its “particular navy operation”, now in its twelfth day.
Peskov informed Reuters in a phone interview that Ukraine was conscious of the circumstances. “They usually had been informed that each one this may be stopped in a second.”
There was no rapid response from the Ukrainian facet.
Russia has attacked Ukraine from the north, east and south, pounding cities together with Kyiv, Kharkiv and the port of Mariupol. The invasion launched on Feb. 24, has induced the worst refugee disaster in Europe since World Conflict Two, provoked outrage internationally, and led to heavy sanctions on Moscow.
(REUTERS)