Moscow puts forward ultimatum: Ukraine's neutral status

Russia is ready to conduct talks with the leadership of Ukraine on the neutral status of the country and the refusal to deploy weapons in its territory.

“The president [Putin] formulated his vision of what we would expect from Ukraine in order to solve the conceptual ‘red-line’ problems. It is a neutral status, it is a refusal to deploy weapons. The question is whether the leadership of Ukraine is ready for this," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, Interfax reports.

Asked whether Russia is ready to talk to Ukraine's leadership on this issue, Peskov said: "If Ukraine's leadership is ready to talk about it."

Earlier, the Kremlin spokesman said that Russia had waged not a war in Ukraine but a "special operation" aimed at "cleansing Ukraine of Nazis, pro-Nazi people and ideologies."

As reported, head of the aggressor country Vladimir Putin announced the beginning of a special military operation in Donbas.

At about 04:00, February 24, Russia attacked Ukraine and launched war.

On the morning of February 24, the Verkhovna Rada approved a presidential decree on the imposition of martial law throughout Ukraine.

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