Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced that Ukraine had submitted a new draft agreement with Moscow. He claims that Kyiv had abandoned some of its previous proposals on the negotiating table in the draft.

Lavrov said Russia would continue talks with Ukraine and present a new draft agreement.

He said that Ukraine had requested a meeting between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss Donbas and Crimea, which was unacceptable, recalling that Zelensky had repeatedly stated that this summit meeting could only be held after the cessation of hostilities.

The Russian foreign minister stressed that Ukraine seeks to undermine the negotiations, highlighting that Washington pushes Zelensky to continue fighting.

Lavrov said that the new draft agreement presented by Kyiv yesterday reflects the Ukrainian side's retreat from the items coordinated between the two parties at a meeting hosted by Istanbul, Turkey, last week.

The new Ukrainian document does not include an assurance that the security guarantees that Ukraine will receive from a group of countries exludes Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, the minister explained.

And the minister continued, "The Ukrainian side will, most likely, request in the next stage the withdrawal of forces, and will move forward with putting forward more preconditions. This scheme is clear and is not acceptable."