Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that during the negotiations in Istanbul, the Ukrainian delegation demonstrated the emergence of “larger realism” on the issue of the status of Crimea and, so-called, “DPR” and “LNR”, Lenta.ru reports.
“It has already been clear to both Kiev representatives that it is impossible to receive security guarantees to NATO, and that the entry into NATO should be forgotten. More realism about the need to consolidate the neutral status of Ukraine and, of course, its nuclear-free status, taking into account flirting with This topic sounded over the past few months, “said Lavrov.
According to him, the way these “notes of realism will be translated” to the contract paper “, still have to understand.