Zelenskyy says willing to talk about Russia's neutrality demand

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s remarks come ahead of a new round of in-person Russia-Ukraine talks.

 Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke in a 90-minute interview with Russian journalists [Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Reuters]

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Ukraine is ready to examine embracing an unbiased status as a feature of a harmony manage Russia, however, the move would host to be ensured by third gatherings and put to a mandate.

 "Security assurances and lack of bias, the non-atomic status of our state. We are all set for it. This is the main point," Zelenskyy said while addressing Russian columnists in a video call that was distributed by neighborhood media on Sunday, notwithstanding Moscow's specialists cautioning against distribution.

The president conveyed his message in Russian all through, as he has done in past talks while tending to a Russian crowd.

 He said Russia's attack had caused the annihilation of Russian-talking urban areas in Ukraine and said the harm was more awful than the Russian conflicts in Chechnya. Ukraine was examining the utilization of the Russian language in Ukraine in chats with Russia, yet wouldn't talk about other Russian requests, for example, the neutralization of Ukraine, he added.

Zelenskyy said a harmonious arrangement wouldn't be imaginable without a truce and troop withdrawals. He precluded attempting to recover all Russian-held regions forcibly, saying it would prompt a third universal conflict, and said he needed to come to a "split the difference" over the eastern Donbas locale, held by Russian-upheld powers starting around 2014.

 Russia's media guard dog Roskomnadzor, however, told Russian media "of the need to forgo distributing the meeting" in an articulation, adding that it would audit all news sources that conveyed it to decide "the degree of obligation and reaction measures". It didn't give a justification behind its advance notice.

A columnist from the Moscow everyday Kommersant is among the Russian writers who have as of late spoken with Zelenskyy through video connect. Writers from the Meduza and Dozhd news sources, whose destinations are impeded in Russia, were likewise present.

 Meduza distributed the meeting, which went on for about 90 minutes. The website might in any case be gotten to through elective web associations and from abroad, for instance.

The Ukrainian chief's discourse with the columnists comes as Russian soldiers' intrusion of Ukraine has entered its subsequent month, causing the demise of in excess of 1,000 regular folks, as per moderate assessments by the United Nations, and compelling more than 3.8 million individuals to escape the country.

 From French President Emmanuel Macron to Turkish President Receipt Tayyip Erdogan, global players have more than once attempted to intercede to track down a strategic answer for a truce.

The most recent exertion came on Sunday in a telephone discussion among Erdogan and his Russian partner Vladimir Putin where the two chiefs consented to one more round of talks among Kyiv and Moscow in the Turkish capital, Istanbul.

 No dates were given for the gathering, however, prior to the day, Ukrainian moderator David Arakhamia said the following exchanges between the two gatherings will happen in Turkey on March 28-30. A Russian moderator affirmed that in-person talks would happen.

The first meeting between the top Ukrainian and Russian diplomats, which took place in Turkey on March 10, did not produce significant results. source:  aljazeera