The Kremlin said - on Tuesday - that negotiations with the Ukrainian side are slow and not "substantial", while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared that any "settlement" must be proposed through a referendum.
Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, in press statements, that negotiations with the Ukrainian side are already going much slower and less meaningful than we would like, noting that Moscow did not reveal the details of the negotiations between the delegations of Russia and Ukraine so as not to harm the negotiation process.
In this context, Peskov made it clear that Kyiv responded and responded only to some documents handed over by the Russian side to its Ukrainian counterpart in the framework of the negotiations.
"Russia's demands are well known to the Ukrainian side, and they were explained and formulated orally and in writing very clearly, and all the necessary draft documents were handed over to the Ukrainians a few days ago, and Kiev responded to some of them," he added.
The Russian presidential spokesman did not announce the date of the next round of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations.
The two parties are holding virtual talks after several rounds between delegations that held meetings on the border between Belarus and Ukraine, but they have not yet resulted in little progress, nor have they been held at a presidential level.
On the other hand, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed again Monday evening his readiness to negotiate directly with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
Zelensky said for the first time that he was open to "trying to address everything that bothers and displeases Russia," in an interview with several media outlets broadcast on Tuesday night.
He added that the issue of the Crimean peninsula annexed by Russia and the two breakaway regions in the Donbass region is under discussion.
In efforts to search for a political solution to Russia's war on Ukraine, Ukrainian Presidential Adviser Mikhail Podolyak said that a meeting between the Russian and Ukrainian presidents will be possible as soon as a draft road map is prepared that defines the course of negotiations.
Podolyak added that it is not possible to reach a substantive decision regarding achieving peace without the two presidents meeting, and that many countries are ready to play the role of mediator between the two sides.
Podolyak added that Russia underestimated Ukraine's combat capabilities and made huge mistakes, stressing that NATO can intervene more effectively.
For his part, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that Ankara's contacts are continuing to stop the war in Ukraine.
On the sidelines of the 48th session of the Conference of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Ihsanoglu added that we cannot turn a blind eye to what Russia is doing.
In London, The Times quoted a British government source as saying that any negotiations with Russia must take place from a position of strength, and that the G7 countries need to show unity in this regard.
The government source warned against making what he called early concessions to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The newspaper said that British ministers expressed their growing concerns about the talks that French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Ulf Schulz are holding with the Russian President.
On February 24, Russia launched an attack on Ukraine to disarm it and prevent it from joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), followed by international economic sanctions on Moscow.