ST. PETERSBURG, June 19. /TASS/. A Russian delegation will be ready to arrive in Istanbul to continue negotiations with Ukraine after June 22, with the exact dates for the new round to be determined soon, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
"After June 22, our delegation, meaning the delegation of the Russian Federation, which was approved by the decision of the president of our country, will be ready to arrive in Istanbul to continue negotiations. As for exact dates – we've been receiving a lot of questions — they will be set in the near future and announced by the delegation's leadership," the diplomat said at a briefing organized on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).
"During the next, third round, we intend to exchange comments on the memoranda of the parties submitted on May 28 and June 2 with proposals for resolving the Ukrainian crisis. Russia's conscientious implementation of the Istanbul agreements has caused, as you probably noticed, a literal fit of rage in Kiev, if not a frenzy."
The diplomat drew attention to the fact that "one of the TV presenters of the [Ukrainian] TV channel 24 literally claimed that there were allegedly no 6,000 bodies of the Ukrainian military. Supposedly, all this is a myth invented by Moscow. She went so far as to claim — and I summon courage every time I have to say this aloud, but it’s a direct quote — that to increase the number of remains, Russia was allegedly dismembering bodies and placing parts in separate bags."
