The sides agreed on a large-scale swap of captured soldiers and exchanged their roadmaps to peace, or so-called “memorandums”, at the discussions, which lasted under two hours.
“The settlement issue is extremely complex and involves a large number of nuances,“ Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday.
Moscow demanded Ukraine pull its troops out of four eastern and southern regions that Moscow claims to have annexed as a precondition to pausing its offensive, according to the document handed to the Ukrainians that was published by Russian state media.
Peskov also dismissed the idea of a summit between the presidents of Russia, Ukraine and the United States.
The White House had said on Monday US President Donald Trump was “open” to the idea, which is also backed by Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Zelensky on Tuesday accused Russia of “deliberately” targeting civilians in a rocket attack on the city of Sumy, some 30 kilometres (18 miles) from the Russian border, that killed three people.
Zelensky posted a video from the emergency services showing destroyed cars and the body of one victim lying on the road.
“Every day, Russia gives new reasons for tougher sanctions and stronger support for our defence,“ he said.
Moscow’s army said it had captured the village of Andriivka in the Sumy region, located around five kilometres from the Russian border.
Meanwhile Ukraine’s SBU security service claimed it had hit a pillar of the Crimean bridge, linking the annexed peninsula to Russia, with an underwater explosive device.
A delegation of top Ukrainian officials also landed in Washington for talks with US officials on defence and economic issues, including the possibility of new sanctions, Zelensky’s office said.
But he has held off from imposing new economic penalties on Moscow.
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