Putin: Negotiations with Ukraine are "a dead end"

Ukraine described, on Tuesday, negotiations with Moscow to reach a peace agreement, as "very difficult", while Russian President Vladimir Putin considered that it "has reached a dead end."

"The negotiations are very difficult," Ukrainian presidential adviser Mikhailo Podolyak said, on Tuesday, in a letter to the press, noting that "the Russian side adheres to its traditional methods of public pressure on the negotiation process, especially through certain statements," according to what was quoted by Agence France-Presse. Press".

Podolyak's comments came after Russian President Vladimir Putin said that "the heterogeneity" of the Ukrainians' positions "is causing difficulties" in the talks, noting that they "reached a dead end", vowing that he would not stop military operations in Ukraine until their goals were achieved.

Putin criticized the removal of issues related to the regulation of relations in the Crimea, Sevastopol and Donbass from the scope of the agreements, "that is, we are once again back to a dead end," according to CNN.

Putin also denied reports of the atrocities that took place in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, describing them as "fake", and compared them with the "false" reports about the Assad regime's use of chemical weapons in Syria.

He said, "There were provocations in Syria, when it was said that chemical weapons were used by the Assad government. Then it turned out that they were fake, and the same thing was fake in Bucha."

News agencies and media networks confirmed the presence of mass graves in areas around Kyiv.

CNN said it witnessed seeing at least 20 dead bodies in only one street on the ground.

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