The military component of unblocking the Ukrainian sea ports is related to the guarantees ensuring that Russia will not take advantage of access to Odesa and will not attack the city from the sea.
The international community, including the OSCE, has offered Russia various options for dialogue, but Russia chose violence and actions contrary to its obligations and norms of international law.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that as soon as the sixth package of EU sanctions against Russia starts working, the seventh one will be prepared.
Any agreement with Russia on the cessation of hostilities is impossible without Ukraine's active participation in these negotiations. No agreement with Russia is acceptable without Kyiv's voluntary consent.
The negotiation process between Ukraine and Russia in the political and diplomatic areas has currently been suspended, but it is working in the humanitarian area.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba in a phone call on Sunday, May 29, discussed further EU sanctions against Russia.
In addition to provoking a global food crisis, Russia may start blackmailing Europe over natural gas supplies with the onset of cold weather, so it is now necessary for the Western world to stand strong and united.
Russia fears that Ukraine's partners will provide the country with equivalent weapons to retaliate for the use of heavy weapons by the Russians and the killing of peaceful Ukrainians.
President Volodymyr Zelensky believes that politicians advising that Ukraine give something to Russia in exchange for the illusion of peace fail to take into account ordinary people – millions of Ukrainians.