After virtual negotiations, in-person talks between Kiev and Moscow must now take place again. The host country is Turkey again.
9:23 am, March 28, 2022
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Kiev and Moscow want to negotiate in Turkey © (c) AP (Markus Schreiber)
After about two weeks of online peace talks, the Ukrainian and Russian delegations now want to meet again in person. The next meeting will take place in Istanbul, informed the Turkish presidential office after a phone call from the head of the Kremlin Vladimir Putin and the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. A time was not mentioned. Kiev negotiators David Arachamias announced on Facebook that negotiations would begin on Monday.
Ukraine dampened expectations of the new round of negotiations. “I don’t think there will be a breakthrough on the most important issues,” said the adviser to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Vadym Denysenko.
Lectures scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday
The head of the Russian delegation Vladimir Medinsky had previously posted on Telegram that a meeting was planned for Tuesday and Wednesday. Putin and Erdogan exchanged views over the phone, among other things, on the status of the talks, the President’s Office in Ankara said on Sunday night. “Erdogan stressed the importance of a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, the implementation of peace and the improvement of humanitarian conditions in the region,” he added. reported his office more.
Ukraine wants to insist on its territorial integrity and sovereignty in negotiations with Russia. That says president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a video message. Effective security guarantees are a must. Ukraine’s goal is peace and a return to normal life in its own country as soon as possible. According to Zelenskyy, “about” 20,000 people have already died in the war.
Good relations with Ankara
Shortly after the start of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, on February 24, delegations from both countries began negotiations. After three face-to-face meetings in the Belarusian border area, the talks were held via videoconferences. Ukraine is demanding an end to the fighting and the withdrawal of Russian troops. Moscow is demanding that Kiev renounce NATO, which recognizes the breakaway areas in the east of the country as independent states and Russian rule over the annexed Crimean peninsula.
Ankara maintains good relations with Moscow and Kiev. In Turkey on March 10 already met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba and your Russian colleague Sergey Lavrov he knew. However, the talks in Antalya at the time did not bring any significant progress.
Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity are unquestionable.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Meanwhile, the head of the Ukrainian military intelligence service fears a division of Ukraine similar to that of North and South Korea. Russia “failed in its attempt to take Kiev and overthrow the Ukrainian government,” he wrote. Kyrylo Budanov on Facebook. Putin is changing strategy, a division of Ukraine may be one of his goals. The Russian army had previously announced that it intended to focus on “liberating” the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine in the future. The separatist leader in Luhansk, Leonid Pasechnik, proposed a referendum on “joining” Russia “in the near future”.
The spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Oleg Nikolenko, condemned the proposal as part of ongoing Russian efforts to “undermine Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity”. He wrote on Twitter: “All false referendums in the temporarily occupied territories are null and void.” Zelenskyy also said in his video message in the evening: “Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity are beyond doubt.”
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