Ultimatums from the West will not help resolve the Ukraine conflict, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has warned, after the EU and US threatened Moscow with additional sanctions. “All enemies of Russia that issue negotiating ultimatums should remember a simple thing: peace negotiations alone do not always lead to the end of hostilities,” Medvedev, currently the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, wrote on X on Saturday. The head of Russia’s negotiating team in Istanbul, Vladimir Medinsky, said the two sides agreed to conduct a prisoner swap involving 1,000 POWs from each side, and to continue contacts once both parties have prepared detailed ceasefire proposals.
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Published at: 2025-05-17 22:30:44
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