 Ukraintsev arrived on a Russian war ship, the 46-gun frigate Krepost in the early fall of 1699.The primary Russian objectives were Ottoman recognition of the Russian war gains around Azov and a free access to the Black Sea for Russia's commercial vessels.When the negotiations progressed slowly and Peter the Great came under time pressure to attack the Swedish Empire in the Great Northern War ("see below"), he urged Ukraintsev to come to a peace soon, and the Russian condition of Black Sea access was dropped.