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Ukraine believes that negotiations with Russia are a “small” opportunity

Ukraine believes that negotiations with Russia are a “small” opportunity

The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, is not optimistic that the negotiations between the Ukrainian and Russian delegations will yield results, but he believes that, “although small, they are an opportunity” for the de-escalation of the offensive carried out by Moscow. against your country.

The president explained that he accepted that a Ukrainian delegation hold talks with a Russian one on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border “so that later not a single citizen of Ukraine has the slightest doubt that I, as president, did not try to stop the war, when there was a small, but still a chance”in a new video message posted on his official Telegram channel.

”Alexandr Lukashenko (the Belarusian president) asked me to meet the Russian and Ukrainian delegations on the Pripyat River. I stress, without conditions. And I say frankly, as always, I don’t believe much in the outcome of this meeting. But let’s try.” he claimed.

As he said before Zelenskythe Belarusian president “has taken responsibility for ensuring that all planes, helicopters and missiles stationed on Belarusian territory remain on the ground during the trip, the talks and the return of the Ukrainian delegation” to Kyiv.

Shortly before, Russia reported that its delegation was on its way to the Gomel region, near the Ukrainian border, to negotiate a possible cessation of hostilities with Ukraine, according to the head of the Russian delegation, Vladimir Medinskyadviser to President Vladimir Putin.

“At the moment the route is being drawn up to choose the place in the Gomel region where maximum security will be guaranteed for the Ukrainian side”, Medinsky had said.

Finally, the meeting will be at the checkpoint of Aleksandrovka-Vilchaon the Ukrainian-Belarusian border, next to the “exclusion zone” created around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant after the 1986 accident.

This morning Zelenskyrefused to hold negotiations on the territory of Belarus, which he accused of being an accomplice in Russia’s aggression against his country.

“Warsaw, Budapest, Istanbul, Baku, we proposed all this to the Russian side, and in fact any other city in any country from which missiles are not launched at us is worth it (as a venue),” said Zelensky in another video message.

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Source: Gestion

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