“We will do it destroy this ‘anti-Russia’ created by the West,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said. in a statement on Thursday evening, in reference to Ukraine that son military invaded recently.
“Russians, Ukrainians it’s the same people,” he added.
Putin also declared that “Russia’s operation against neo-nazis in Ukraine is going as planned.”
Earlier on On Thursday, Zelenskyy asked Putin “to stop this war”, underlining the need for two leaders to speak without preconditions while second round of negotiations between the parties are continuing.
Moscow and Kyiv started a second round of talks in western Belarus earlier on the same day, just hours after Putin reiterated the demands of son country in a telephone conversation with son French counterpart Emmanuel Macron.
Both parties agreed on Brest region in western Belarus as a place for talks and russian military planned a “safety corridor” for allow the passage of the Ukrainian delegation.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has urged Russia to declare a ceasefirefire in the hard-hit eastern regions of Kharkiv and Sumy to allow civilians to achieve safety.
the first negotiations on Monday at the Belarusian-Ukrainian border did not bring anything tangible results. Russian attacks continued to hit Ukraine and several explosions were recorded in Kyiv early Thursday, the eighth day of the invasiontriggering air raid sirens.
