President Zelenskyy says peace talks with Russia more realistic as Ukraine not joining NATO any soon
KUMASI, 16th March, (Futball Surgery)– Peace talks with Russia now “sound more realistic”, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said, but time is still needed to secure a deal in Ukraine’s interests.
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Ukraine’s president also hints he may accept security guarantees that stop short of joining NATO; promising to never join the military alliance is one of Russia’s key demands.
Peace talks with Russia now “sound more realistic”, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said, but time is still needed to secure a deal in Ukraine’s interests.
A Ukrainian negotiator also sounded cautiously optimistic after the latest meeting, saying “there is certainly room for compromise” despite “fundamental contradictions”.
A series of Russian attacks probed closer to central Kyiv on Tuesday, with a huge fire breaking out in a 15-storey apartment building in the west of the capital.
The assaults continued on Wednesday morning. A plume of smoke was seen rising into the sky after an artillery shell rammed into an apartment block in the centre of the Ukrainian capital, obliterating the top floor and starting a fire.
Two people were hurt, according to early reports.
‘No way Ukraine joining NATO soon’
One of the major issues Vladimir Putin has with Ukraine is that the country wants to join NATO, however Boris Johnson on Wednesday, speaking from Saudi Arabia, said that will not be an option any time soon.
The British prime minister said: “I talked to Volodymyr (Zelenskyy) again yesterday and of course, I understand what he is saying about NATO and the reality of the position.
“And everybody has always said – and we’ve made it clear to Putin – that there is no way Ukraine is going to join NATO anytime soon.”
‘Negotiations sound more realistic’
Mr Zelenskyy, in his nightly address on Tuesday, said “everyone should work, including our representatives, our delegation, for negotiations with the Russian Federation”.
He added: “It is difficult, but important, as any war ends with an agreement.
“The meetings continue, and, I am informed, the positions during the negotiations already sound more realistic. But time is still needed for the decisions to be in the interests of Ukraine.”
He also hinted that he may accept security guarantees that stop short of joining NATO. Ukraine abandoning its ambitions to join the military alliance is among Russian demands.
Eastern European leaders in Kyiv
The leaders of Poland, Slovenia and Czech Republic have arrived in Kyiv after taking a train to meet the president – a bold show of support given the risks involved.
Poland’s prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki tweeted a picture of the group, saying: “Europe must understand that if it loses Ukraine it will never be the same again.
“It will no longer be Europe. Rather it will be a defeated, humiliated and pathetic version of its former self.”
A curfew is now in force in Kyiv until 7am (5am GMT) on Thursday after a ratcheting up of strikes over the past 48 hours.
Everyone is a Russian target
Mayor Vitali Klitschko urged his fellow citizens to “spend the time in the bunkers” as he visited the aftermath of the latest attack in the Svyatoshynskyi district.
His brother, former boxer Wladimir, told Sky News: “It doesn’t matter who you are on the Ukrainian soil now… if you have a press badge, or you’re a little girl or boy, an adult, man or woman… or an old person… you are a target from Russia, from the Russian army.”
In the southern city of Mariupol – which has been pummelled for several weeks – 20,000 people used 4,000 private cars to escape on Tuesday as a humanitarian corridor operated for a second day.
Ukrainian authorities, however, have accused Russia of blocking aid supplies to the cut-off city.
Russian troops have also seized a hospital in Mariupol and taken around 500 people hostage, according to regional leader Pavlo Kyrylenko.
He said Russian forces had driven 400 people from neighbouring houses into Regional Intensive Care Hospital, where they joined around 100 doctors and patients inside.
The troops are using those inside the hospital as human shields and not allowing anyone to leave, he said on messaging app Telegram.
Another 8,533 people were evacuated from the northeast Sumy region on Tuesday, according to deputy prime minister Iryna Vereshchuk.
