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The Ukrainian delegation nevertheless agreed to hold talks in the Gomel region of Belarus, and the Russian delegation is going there. Vladimir Medinsky, Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation, announced this today.
“We were about to leave, but we received information from the Ukrainian side about the confirmation of the negotiations,” Medinsky said.
Earlier, the National Press Center of Belarus, citing public figure Yuri Voskresensky, said that a Ukrainian delegation was going to negotiate with the Russian side in Gomel, Interfax notes.
For his part, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto expressed hope that negotiations between Russia and Ukraine would begin as soon as possible.
Recall, on February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin made an emergency appeal to the Russians and announced a special military operation in the Donbass. In his speech, he stated that “circumstances require decisive action from Russia” and stressed that “Russia will not allow Ukraine to have nuclear weapons.”
In response to Russia’s actions, Western countries (USA, Canada, European Union, Great Britain, Japan) announced new, tougher sanctions against the Russian Federation, including financial and economic ones.
Sanctions, in particular, hit Russian banks, including Sberbank, VTB, Novikombank, FC Otkritie and Sovcombank.
Later, the EU countries and the United States agreed to disconnect Russian banks that fell under sanctions from the international system of interbank transactions and information exchange SWIFT. In addition, it was decided to freeze the assets of the Bank of Russia, which will create difficulties for its use of international reserves. EU countries also pledged to take steps to limit the sale of citizenship — the so-called “golden passports” that allow wealthy Russians connected to the Russian government to become citizens of EU states and access their financial systems.
You can follow the chronicle of events around Ukraine on February 27 here.
Source: Rosbalt
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