The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson discussed yesterday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky the naval blockade of the port of Odessa by the Russianssaid a Downing Street spokesman.
Johnson expressed his determination to redouble his efforts to provide basic food, humanitarian aid to the people of Ukraine, and to ensure that the country would be able to export to the rest of the world, the spokesman added.
Moscow is ready to resume peace talks with Ukraine
Russian negotiator Vladimir Medinsky said tonight that the Moscow is ready to resume peace talks with Ukraine, blaming Kyiv for interrupting them.
“For our part, we are ready to continue the dialogue,” said Medinsky, a Kremlin adviser who has been tasked with negotiating with the Ukrainein an interview with Belarus Public Television.
“The freezing of the talks was done exclusively on the initiative of Ukraine,” he added, adding that now “the ball is in their court.”
“Russia has never refused to negotiate,” he said.
Negotiations began after Russian forces entered Ukraine on February 24 but were unable to quickly occupy the capital. The two countries’ foreign ministers met in Turkey in March, after which delegations held talks in Istanbul, but without success.
Ukrainian negotiator Mikhail Pontolyak said last Tuesday that talks were “suspended” as Russia redeployed its forces and was now focusing on the “special operation”, as he called it. warin eastern Ukraine.
“We are not ready for peace talks yet,” Zeleski said
According to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, in a telephone conversation with Mario Draghi last night, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that “his country is not yet ready for a real peace process».
“We will be able to discuss it only when we re-understand the territories that the Russia “He took us away from the beginning of the war,” Zelenski added, according to the Milan newspaper.
“I hope that Italy will continue to support us, with the defense systems that we need for our liberation struggle,” he said. Zeleski.
According to “Corriere”, the Ukrainian president asked Mario Draghi to help his country join the European Union “despite the resistance of some members of the Union, starting from Berlin”.
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