INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Lifting sanctions imposed on Russia is part of peace negotiations between Moscow and Ukraine, which are &difficult& but continue daily,
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in remarks published early on Saturday, Reuters reported.Kyiv warned on Friday that talks on
ending Russia&s invasion, now in its third month, were in danger of collapse.At present, the Russian and Ukrainian delegations are actually
discussing on a daily basis via video-conferencing a draft of a possible treaty,& Lavrov said in comments to China&s official Xinhua news
agency published on the Russian foreign ministry&s website.Ukraine&s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has insisted since the invasion began on
24 that Western sanctions on Russia needed to be strengthened and could not be part of negotiations, read the report.Ukraine and Russia have
not held face-to-face peace talks since March 29, and the atmosphere has soured over Ukrainian allegations that Russian troops carried out
atrocities as they withdrew from areas near Kyiv
Moscow has denied the claims.According to Reuters Moscow calls its actions in Ukraine a &special operation& to demilitarise and &denazify&
Ukraine and the West say Russia launched an unprovoked war of aggression.The talks& agenda also includes, among others, the issues of
denazificiation, the recognition of new geopolitical realities, the lifting of sanctions, the status of the Russian language,& Lavrov said,
without elaborating.We are in favour of continuing the negotiations, although they are difficult,& Lavrov said.Ukraine&s Western allies have
placed sweeping sanctions on Moscow
They have frozen around half of Russia&s state gold and foreign currency reserves, hammering Russia&s economy and putting it on the brink of
sovereign default.The post Lifting sanctions against Russia part of peace talks with Ukraine & Lavrov first appeared on Ariana News.
