Ukrainska Pravda
At a meeting with the heads of the municipalities that make up the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, the president of the aggressor state, expressed his dissatisfaction over Ukraine’s reluctance to engage in negotiations and condemned the Ukrainian side, saying that “everything would have ended long ago.”
Source: broadcast of Putin’s speech; Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti
Quote: “Having refused to negotiate, and they have done exactly that! But let me remind you, in Istanbul they agreed on everything – I’m saying this to you, the heads of the municipal authorities; all citizens should know this, and it is you who work directly with people. We agreed on everything. Moreover, the head of the negotiating group from Ukraine even put his signature under this. The signature is there, we have the document. They just told us that we need to show a sign that Russia really intends to resolve these issues peacefully, that we need to withdraw troops from Kyiv, which we have done. A day later, they threw all the arrangements into the trash.”
Voice of Ukraine 