The Russian delegation had arrived yesterday at that place in the Brest region near the border with Poland, according to its head, Vladimir Medinsky, adviser to President Vladimir Putin, who confirmed that the meeting point between the two parties had been chosen.
However, the representative of the Ukrainian negotiating team, David Aragamia, said that the meeting will not take place there and the details will be known later.
In addition to Medinsky, the Russian delegation still consists of Deputy Ministers of Defense and Foreign Affairs Andrei Rudenko and Alexander Fomin, Chairman of the Committee on International Relations of the State Duma (lower house), Leonid Slutsky, and Russian Ambassador to Belarus Boris Gryzlov.
The prospect of continuing Russian-Ukrainian talks to resolve the conflict between the two sides was off on Tuesday, after Kyiv made dialogue conditional on a cessation of hostilities.
“First of all, a complete ceasefire is needed,” Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said in an interview with Reuters news agency, referring to continuing negotiations between Moscow and Kiev.
However, the country’s foreign minister, Dmitry Kuleba, said that Ukraine was analyzing the results of Monday’s meeting with the Russian delegation and assured Kiev that it would be ready to attend a new meeting if necessary.
He stressed that his government was ready to meet and resolve the situation through diplomatic channels, but stressed that he would not attend the negotiations if Russia “plans to announce ultimatums.”
According to the comments of the Russian side, important points were found on which progress could be made at the February 28 meeting.
Russia began a military operation in Ukraine on February 24 after the authorities of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics in Ukraine requested assistance in repelling Kyiv’s aggression.
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