In the memorandum, Russia demanded the withdrawal of troops from Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions – Axios

Russia has demanded that Ukraine withdraw its troops from the entire territory of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions as a condition for a ceasefire.

Axios reports, citing a Ukrainian official.

Earlier, this same demand had been voiced by Putin. Ukraine, in turn, has called it unacceptable.

In addition, the Russians proposed to return 10 Ukrainian children. Kyiv, however, is demanding the return of more than a hundred children.

Russian delegation representative Vladimir Medinsky denied at the meeting that Russia had taken tens of thousands of Ukrainian children, calling this claim “propaganda.”

“Stop throwing around crazy figures. We will return everyone who is in the Russian Federation. There is no abduction of people. Russian soldiers are not abducting anyone. They saved them because their lives were in danger. Don’t put on a show for the sympathetic European grandmothers who don’t have children themselves,” Medinsky said.