Ukraine has reported that it will do so without conditions at the Aleksandrovka-Vilcha checkpoint, on the border between Ukraine and Belarus, and that Minsk would be responsible for the safety of the Ukrainian delegation.
Negotiations between Russia and Ukraine on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border will start early on Monday, according to sources from both countries, quoted by Russian and Ukrainian media.
“It is not a postponement, the meeting will take place in the morning due to a logistical issue on the Ukrainian side,” said a source, quoted by the Russian agency TASS.
Also the spokesman for Ukrainian President VolodÃmir Zelensky, Sergei Nikiforov, told the nv.ua portal that due to complex logistical measures, as well as the need to guarantee the safety of the Ukrainian delegation, it would still take a few hours to reach the place of the meeting.
This Sunday both countries have announced that they will negotiate in Belarus, a firm ally of Moscow.
Ukraine has reported that it will do so without conditions at the Aleksandrovka-Vilcha checkpoint, on the border between Ukraine and Belarus, and that Minsk would be responsible for the safety of the Ukrainian delegation.
The President of Ukraine has explained that he has agreed to this meeting “so that later not a single citizen of Ukraine will have the slightest doubt that I, as President, will not I tried to stop the warwhen there was a small, but still a chance”.
No to meet in Belarus
The Kremlin had sent this Sunday a Russian negotiating delegation to Belarus to start talks with Ukrainian representatives on the war between Russia and Ukraine, according to the spokesman for the Russian presidency, Dmitry Peskov. For his part, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, refused this morning to have those talks with Russia in Belarus, denouncing that dialogue cannot take place in a country that is complicit in Russian aggression against Ukraine. Nevertheless, has left the door open for these talks to take place elsewhere, to finally agree to meet in Gomel.
The sending of that delegation from Moscow arrives in the fourth day of russian invasionwhich began in the early hours of Thursday, with Kremlin forces stalking Kiev and seizing other cities, such as Kharkivthe second largest in the country, with 1.4 million inhabitants.
This Saturday Ukraine accused Russia of wanting to lead possible negotiations to stop the war to a dead end before they start, by falsely claiming that Kiev refuses to sit at the table to talk and put conditions on the talks.
Putin nuclear threat
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin today ordered the Russian nuclear deterrence forces to be put into “special service regime” following “aggressive statements” by major NATO countries.
Source: Eitb
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