French foreign minister says he believes Russia is pretending to negotiate as it did in Chechnya and Syria
A peace deal between Kyiv and Moscow is being drafted by lawyers but a breakthrough depends on the Kremlin accepting a ceasefire, Ukraine’s defence minister has said, as the French government accused Russia of pretending to negotiate.
Oleksii Reznikov, who has been leading the Ukrainian delegation in the negotiations, said technical work was progressing but that Russia had to stop its shelling for any compromise to be possible.
