The expectations from the talks held yesterday in Belovezhskaya Pushcha did not come true – the delegations of Russia and Ukraine reached only minor agreements.
Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podolyak “Correspondent”, stated that “there are small positive developments in improving the logistics of humanitarian corridors.” On the basic political block of the settlement, along with a ceasefire and security guarantees, intensive consultations will continue, he said.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky TASS, assured that negotiations with Russia would continue until a result was reached in the settlement. In his video message, he said:
“Today, the third round of negotiations took place in Belarus, I would like to say the third and final, but we are realists. Therefore, we will talk, we will insist on negotiations until we find a way to tell our people – “this is how we will come to peace.”
On Monday, the third round of Russian-Ukrainian talks took place in Belovezhskaya Pushcha in western Belarus. Mikhail Podolyak said that the third round did not bring results that would significantly improve the situation. Intensive consultations on key issues will continue. The expectations of the Russian side from negotiations with Ukraine also did not materialize. “News”. After the completion of the third round of negotiations, this was stated by the assistant to the President of the Russian Federation, the head of the delegation, Vladimir Medinsky:
“To be honest, our expectations from the negotiations did not come true, we hope that next time we will be able to take a more significant step forward, the negotiations will continue. We arrived with a large set of written documents. We took concrete agreements, drafts, proposals and hoped that today it would be possible to sign at least a protocol on some of the points on which we seem to have already agreed in principle. However, the Ukrainian side took all these documents home for study. I couldn’t sign anything on the spot.”
That is, following the results of the meeting between Moscow and Kyiv, it was not possible to sign any documents. Medinsky expressed hope that from March 8, humanitarian corridors in Ukraine will start working.
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