Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday said he was unwilling to solely discuss the “denazification” of Ukraine, ahead of the resumption of peace talks with Russia in Istanbul on Monday.

“We won’t sit down at the table at all if all we talk about is some ‘demilitarization,’ or some ‘denazification.’ For me, these are absolutely incomprehensible things,” the 44-year-old told independent Russian journalists on Sunday.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin had specifically used the terms “denazification” and “demilitarisation” to justify the invasion of Ukraine on February 24. Zelensky said that Ukrainian diplomats had met their Russian counterparts to request them to not use those terms, but the talks did not prove “substantive at all.”

Zelensky had earlier said that he was willing to discuss neutrality for the Donbas region for negotiating peace between the two sides.

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“Our state’s security guarantees and neutrality, as well as its non-nuclear status. We are prepared to go for it,” he had told independent Russian journalists.

Zelensky’s comments hint at a possible agreement between the warring sides in the coming days, although it is difficult to say for certain.

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However, the willingness to come to an agreement through compromise does signal a change, as previous talks between the two sides had yielded nothing.

It has been over a month since Russia invaded its neighbour, but despite Moscow’s superior military might, Russian forces have failed to capture any of Ukraine’s biggest cities, many of which, including the capital Kyiv, still remain under Russian siege.