UNITED NATIONS, May 29 – russia has expressed its willingness to resume direct peace negotiations with Ukraine, according to Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Vasili Nebenzia. He stated this commitment during a UN Security Council meeting on Thursday.

“We intend to continue with the serious and direct negotiations with Ukraine that they themselves suspended in April 2022, under the influence of the then British prime minister Boris Johnson and other Rusophobes,” said Nebenzia.

The Russian representative emphasized that Moscow will continue its special military operation until kyiv ceases provocations and attacks on civilian infrastructure within Russia.

“While kyiv continues to prolong the war and cause Russia, attacking residential and civil infrastructures in our territory, we will continue our special military operation and destroy the facilities related to the military potential of the kyiv regime,” he stated.

Nebenzia added, “And no new anti -Russian sanctions, no weapons supplies to Ukraine or other hostile measures to Russia will prevent the unavoidable military defeat of the Zelenski regime.”

He reiterated Russia’s desire to maintain peace negotiations with Ukraine, which kyiv paused in 2022. “Its result should be a solution that reliably eliminates the deep causes of the Ukrainian conflict and threats to the security of our country from Ukraine,” he explained.

“Now the choice is from Ukraine: peace as an inevitable result of negotiations or an inevitable defeat on the battlefield with other conditions for the end of the conflict,” Nebenzia concluded.

Potential Meeting in Istanbul

“Now the choice is from Ukraine: peace as a result of negotiations or an inevitable defeat on the battlefield…”

Serguéi Lavrov,Russia’s chancellor,announced that the next round of direct conversations between Moscow and kyiv is scheduled for June 2 in Istanbul.russia plans to present its specifications for a ceasefire agreement to the Ukrainian delegation during this meeting.

Rustem Umérov, the Ukrainian defense minister, confirmed that kyiv had already submitted its position in a document sent to Moscow.

delegations from Russia and Ukraine resumed direct dialog in Istanbul on May 16, marking the first such interaction in over three years.

During that meeting, both parties agreed to a large-scale prisoner exchange, with 1,000 prisoners exchanged for 1,000, completed in three rounds from May 23 to 25.

Ukraine also requested a meeting between the heads of state of both countries, which Russia acknowledged.

On may 19, Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, and Donald Trump, the president of the USA, discussed the situation in Ukraine during a telephone conversation lasting more than two hours.

Following the call, the Russian president indicated Moscow’s willingness to exchange memorandums with kyiv to facilitate progress toward a peace agreement, aiming to end more than three years of hostilities between the two nations.