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Ukraine[/B] has submitted proposals for imposing new sanctions against Russia, during a meeting in Kiev today between the president, Volodymyr Zelensky, and the leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Romania, the head of the Ukrainian president's office said.
"We need to increase pressure on the aggressor to cooperate on the seventh package of sanctions, with an embargo on natural gas," the Ukrainian official, Andriy Yermak, wrote in a Telegram post.
He announced that the foreign leaders had concluded their meeting with the Ukrainian president.
The Kremlin's reaction
"We would like to hope that the leaders of these three countries (...) will not only focus on supporting Ukraine and plans to continue to flood it with weapons. It is completely useless and will prolong the suffering of the people and cause more damage to the country," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a conference call with reporters.
He said that "on the contrary, we hope that they will urge President Volodymyr Zelensky to have a realistic approach to the situation."
"Moscow ready for talks"
[BR]Meanwhile, the head of Russia's negotiating team, Vladimir Medinsky, said today that Moscow is ready to resume peace talks with Ukraine, but has not received a response to the proposals submitted to Kiev in previous rounds of talks.
After intermittent talks between Russia and Ukraine in March, including a meeting of delegations in Istanbul, negotiations between Russia and Ukraine have since collapsed.
The two sides accuse each other of not negotiating in good faith.
Source: in.gr
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