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   We can see the withdrawal from Kiev region falls in line with Russia's peace   
   proposal.   
   However, Ukraine's inflexibility concerning the Donbass and especially Crimea   
   would suggest that the war will go on indefinitely.   
   US will continue to impose sanctions as long as NATO has no chance of gaining   
   a navy base at Sevastopol    
      
   Medinsky said that among other things agreed-on by the sides during the talks   
   in Istanbul last week were Kiev’s abstention from the deployment of foreign   
   troops, bases and any offensive strike weapons on Ukrainian territory, the   
   fielding and production    
   of weapons of mass destruction, and the staging of drills with foreign   
   militaries without consent from guarantor states, including Russia.   
      
   However, Medinsky disagreed with Ukraine’s top negotiator David Arakhamia,   
   who’d earlier claimed that Moscow accepted Kiev’s stance on all points   
   except for the Crimea issue.   
      
   Italy ready to guarantee Ukraine’s neutral status   
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   “I object,” the Russian wrote, insisting that Moscow’s position on the   
   status of Crimea and the republics of Donetsk and Lugansk remained   
   “unchanged.”   
      
   Moscow is demanding that Kiev officially recognize Crimea as part of Russia   
   and the republics in Donbass as independent states   
      
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