Volodymyr Zelensky signs order excluding negotiations with Vladimir Putin

The National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) decision to ban a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin came into effect by a decree signed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to President Zelensky’s press service. A letter posted on Zelensky’s website on Tuesday said his NSDC in Ukraine considered talks with Putin “impossible.”

In his order, the Ukrainian president also instructed the government to develop plans for a multi-level security assurance system aimed at strengthening Ukraine’s defense capabilities, according to Xinhua News Agency.President Vladimir Putin said on Friday , the decree was signed after declaring that four occupied Ukrainian territories are now part of Russia.

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Following a referendum in which four regions allegedly “chosen” to participate Russiasaid the president. Kyiv and the West rejected the referendum, calling it a forced fraud. “He (Putin) does not know what dignity and honesty are. So we are ready to have a dialogue with Russia, but we are ready to have a dialogue with another Russian president,” Zelensky said on Friday. .

Now the Ukrainian military appears to be focused on pushing Russian forces out of these annexations. They have overwhelmed Russian forces in the strategic South Kherson region and are now rapidly advancing eastward to retake a growing number of Russian annexations.

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Ukraine’s counterattack against Russia surprised many defense experts who thought Ukraine would fall within days of a Russian invasion. More than 4,000 square kilometers of her territory, including the strategically important northeastern towns of Izium and Kupiansk, which served as a logistics base for Russian troops, have been retaken from Russia by Ukraine.

The NSDC announced on Sept. 30 to secure Ukraine and restore territorial integrity, after Moscow officially declared four parts of Ukraine under Russian control as Russian territory. decided to take action. The latest session of face-to-face peace talks between Ukrainian and Russian officials took place in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 29.

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(with input from IANS)