Peace talks did not offer any breakthroughs – Russia
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has been briefing the media on the talks held with Ukraine in Turkey yesterday, and played down any hopes of a breakthrough.
Yesterday, Russia said it intended to scale back its military activity in Kyiv and Chernihiv, and Ukraine said it would consider becoming a “neutral” state.
“What is positive is that the Ukrainian side has at least started to specifically formulating and putting on paper what it is proposing. Until now we had not managed to achieve that,” Peskov said.
“As regards the rest, we cannot, put it this way, at present state there have been any breakthroughs, anything very promising,” he said, in remarks reported by the Interfax news agency.