After weeks of trying to hammer out a peace deal, negotiators for Russia and Ukraine appear further apart than at any other point in the nearly three-month-long war, with the talks having collapsed in a thicket of public recriminations.
Vladimir Medinsky, head of President Vladimir Putin’s delegation, claims that Russia has still not received a response to a draft peace agreement that it submitted to Ukraine on April 15.
Rustem Umerov, a top Ukrainian negotiator, responded by saying that Russia was operating with "fakes and lies.”
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