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<\/p>\nHe told Russian media – who were warned not to report the interview – such a pact would have to be guaranteed by third parties and put to a referendum.<\/p>\n
Zelensky said Russia’s invasion had caused the destruction of Russian-speaking cities in Ukraine, and said the damage was worse than the Russian wars in Chechnya.<\/p>\n
‘Security guarantees and neutrality, non-nuclear status of our state. We are ready to go for it. This is the most important point,’ he said.<\/p>\n
He\u00a0said no peace deal would be possible without a ceasefire and troop withdrawals.<\/p>\n
‘All entries and exits from the city of Mariupol are blocked,’ Zelensky added.<\/p>\n
‘The port is mined. A humanitarian catastrophe inside the city is unequivocal, because it is impossible to go there with food, medicine and water,’ he said.<\/p>\n
‘I don’t even know who the Russian army has ever treated like this,’ he said, adding that, compared to Russian wars in Chechnya, the volume of destruction ‘cannot be compared’.<\/p>\n
It came as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had a telephone call with Russian President Vladimir\u00a0Putin today where he\u00a0stressed the need for a ceasefire in Ukraine, his\u00a0office said.<\/p>\n
The two leaders agreed the next meeting between Russian and Ukrainian officials should be held in Istanbul though it did not give a time frame.
\nErdogan also called for an improvement to the humanitarian situation in the region, according to the statement.<\/p>\n
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Earlier on Sunday, Ukrainian negotiator David Arakhamia said the next round of face-to-face talks between Ukraine and Russia will take place in Turkey on March 28-30.<\/p>\n
While Russia’s chief negotiator said the in-person talks would begin on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
This week Erdogan said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s comments on the need for a referendum for compromises with Russia was ‘smart leadership’.<\/p>\n
Speaking to reporters on a return flight from a NATO summit in Brussels, The Turkish president said his country could not impose sanctions on Russia due to its energy needs and cooperation.<\/p>\n
A Ukrainian military chief has said that Putin is trying to split Ukraine in two, as separatists in rebel-held Luhansk say they will hold referendum on joining Russia.<\/p>\n
In talks with Ukraine, Moscow has urged it to acknowledge Russia’s sovereignty over Crimea and the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.<\/p>\n
The head of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic, Leonid Pasechnik, said it may hold a referendum in the near future.<\/p>\n
However Ukraine said that any such vote would have no legal basis and vowed a ‘total’ guerrilla warfare to prevent the country splitting in two.<\/p>\n
‘In fact, it is an attempt to create North and South Korea in Ukraine,’ Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukrainian military intelligence, said in a statement, referring to the division of Korea after World War Two.<\/p>\n
Russia has supported the separatist rebels in Luhansk and the neighbouring Donetsk regions since an insurgency erupted there in 2014 shortly after Moscow’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula.<\/p>\n
Vladimir Putin last month recognised the eastern regions of Luhansk and Donetsk, where pro-Russian separatists began fighting Ukrainian forces in 2014, as ‘independent’.<\/p>\n
Putin used the apparent protection of the two eastern Ukrainian regions as a pretext to start their barbaric invasion on Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Ukraine has repeatedly said it will never agree to Russia’s annexation of its territory – the hardest part of peace talks with Moscow.<\/p>\n
‘All fake referendums in the temporarily occupied territories are null and void and will have no legal validity,’ Ukraine’s foreign ministry spokesperson Oleg Nikolenko said in a statement to Reuters.<\/p>\n
‘Instead, Russia will face an even stronger response from the international community, further deepening its global isolation.’
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