Russia and Ukraine ‘close to agreeing’ on neutral status, says Lavrov.
A deal with Kyiv on “neutral status” for Ukraine as part of a peace agreement could be close, Russia’s foreign minister has said.
Fifteen-point draft deal would involve Kyiv renouncing Nato ambitions in return for security guarantees.
Ankara would like to organize a meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Ukrainian counterpart Dmitry Kuleba on the sidelines of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said at a press conference in the wake of emergency meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers Friday.
Offering no evidence to back up his remarks in an interview with state television, a week after Russian invaded Ukraine, he also accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, an ethnic Jew, of presiding over "a society where Nazism is flourishing".
Moscow put its strategic nuclear forces on alert last week amid the war in Ukraine, causing ripples across the globe.
Blinken and Lavrov agree to meeting as tensions reach ‘moment of peril’
