NY Post
Ukraine and Russia both indicated Wednesday there was a possibility that the countries can negotiate an end to three weeks of bitter fighting, but Ukrainian neutrality remains a contentious point.
The promising signs of a breakthrough come after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday acknowledged that NATO membership for Ukraine was unlikely.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called the NATO acknowledgment indicative of a “businesslike spirit” starting to surface in peace talks, which he said “gives hope that we can agree on this issue.”
“A neutral status is being seriously discussed in connection with security guarantees,” Lavrov said on Russian TV this week. “There are concrete formulations that in my view are close to being agreed…
