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The Ukrainian government has ruled out any option for dialogue with Russia and even considers that a meeting between the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, makes no sense.
“To put it quickly. The negotiation process itself and a face-to-face meeting between the presidents does not make any sense at the moment,” said Ukrainian presidential adviser Mikhailo Podoliak, according to the Ukrainian press.
He has also mentioned three reasons to justify this position. The first is that Russia would try to resist and legitimize its territorial advances.
Second, maintaining the ‘status quo’ would only give Moscow space and time to continue its attacks on the new front lines. And third: Russia must be held accountable for the crimes it has committed on Ukrainian territory.
Negotiations would only be possible once Russian troops had withdrawn from Ukrainian territory. Only then could war reparations and the surrender of war criminals be negotiated, Podoliak said.
On the other hand, kyiv has denounced new “regular” Russian bombardments against the areas recently recovered by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the northeast of the country.
Specifically, they refer to missile attacks in Kharkov, Izium and Chuhuiv that have destroyed residential buildings, commercial buildings, factories and gas stations, as explained by the regional governor Oleh Sinegubov on his Telegram channel.
In Chuhuiv, two women have died from the impact of a tank projectile. In addition, an eleven-year-old girl has died in the bombings.
Sinegubov explained that some 60 bodies have been recovered from mass graves recently found in a forest near Izium, most of them women and men, all of them civilians. There were also Ukrainian soldiers, victims of a violent death, and signs of torture.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian forces crossed the Oskil River in the Kharkov region on Sunday and already control both banks of it in a new advance of their offensive against the areas under Russian control.
Ukrainian military sources cited by Bloomberg have also reported that Russian attacks have been repelled near Kupiansk and Hoptivka, near the Russian border, an area recently recaptured by kyiv.
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