The counter -offensive of the Armed Forces forced the Kremlin to ask for negotiations: Kyiv refused

According to Olga Stefanishina, Ukraine will only start negotiations after reaching all the goals on the battlefield. And now there is a turning point in the war that began in 2014. The counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine forced officials of the Russian Federation to contact Kiev for resumption of negotiations, but the Ukrainian side refused, since military goals in confrontation with the aggressor state have not yet been achieved.

Olga Stephanyshyn said this in an interview for France 24 in an interview with France 24. "Stephanyshina said that in recent days Russian officials have addressed Ukraine for negotiations, but now its country has more levers of influx, and it will only start negotiations after reaching its military goals," the publication reads. According to journalists, Stephanishina noted that now the Russians are offering to Kiev to stop the promotion of the Armed Forces during a counter -offensive.

During the conversation, the minister called this stage of confrontation with a turning point not only in the full -scale invasion of Russian troops, which began on February 24, but in all the war, which has been ongoing since the spring of 2014. Stephanyshina expressed confidence that temporarily occupied regions of Donetsk and Luhansk regions and Crimea would return under the control of the Government of Ukraine.

In addition, the minister called on European countries leaders to impose additional sanctions on the Russian Federation, noting that the topic of Russian energy resources is its weak place, and restrictions should be directed to this sector. We will remind, according to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, from the beginning of counter -offensive actions from the Armed Forces from the occupiers were released about 6 thousand square kilometers of the territory.