KYIV. June 6 (Interfax) - Ukraine's representative in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) and ex-president Leonid Kuchma said that the Russian leadership's proposal for President Volodymyr Zelensky to start building the relationship with a clean slate should also involve Moscow articulating its position.
"I keep saying that this should be two-way traffic. I heard the Russian president's press secretary [Dmitry] Peskov saying that 'Kuchma is not bad actually but we must talk to President Zelensky' ...that Zelensky should make proposals," Kuchma told a press conference in the Ukrainian presidential administration on Thursday.
"Now, if Peskov said that 'we in turn are offering this and that and that'. But instead, they are proposing [to start] with a clean slate. And what is a clean slate? And maybe they will say the clean slate is that Crimea is theirs, the situation in Donbas is a frozen conflict, and so on," Kuchma said.