PNN – The Ukrainian president rejected Moscow’s proposal for a temporary ceasefire by attacking the Russian delegation present at the Istanbul talks calling them idiots.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, citing Russia Today, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected Moscow’s proposal for a temporary ceasefire in order to recover the bodies of soldiers killed in the ongoing war and hold a funeral ceremony, calling the Russian delegation “idiots”!
Zelensky said after the second round of Ukraine-Russia talks: They (the Russians) are ready for a two-to-three-day ceasefire to collect bodies from the battlefield. I think they are stupid!
According to him, the goal of any ceasefire should be to save lives, not collect bodies! He also called on the United States to impose stricter sanctions on Moscow to force them to accept Kiev’s demands!
The second round of direct talks between Russia and Ukraine was held in Turkey yesterday, and the head of the Russian delegation, Meladimir Medinsky, proposed a short-term ceasefire in several frontline areas of the war.
Medinsky said in this regard: We want to create conditions for the collection of bodies and their delivery for burial and cremation. This will help prevent the spread of the disease and speed up the process of dignified collection of bodies.
According to Medinsky, Russia has already unilaterally committed to repatriating the bodies of 6,000 Ukrainian soldiers and officers, and Moscow has identified them through DNA testing.
Zelensky also downplayed Medinsky’s position, calling him a “low-level” official who doesn’t even understand technical issues!
He claimed that such exchanges had occurred before between Ukrainian and Russian units without any formal agreement or ceasefire and “are happening.”