Ukraine’s leading negotiator said talks with Russia that were held Monday are on pause and will continue on Tuesday as the two sides are now communicating via video conference.
“A technical pause has been taken in the negotiations until tomorrow. For additional work in the working subgroups and clarification of individual definitions. Negotiations continue,” Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, wrote on Twitter.
Russia’s head negotiator, Vladimir Medinsky, said the two sides will hold virtual talks every day. “Talks with the Ukrainian delegation continue in the videoconference format every day, seven days a week. This format helps save time and money. We are trying to do our best to implement the tasks set by [Russian President] Vladimir Putin, to ensure Russia’s peaceful future,” Medinsky wrote on Telegram, according to Russia’s Tass news agency.
Since Russia launched its assault in Ukraine, delegations led by Podolyak and Medinsky met in person three times in Belarus. Last week, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba met with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, in Turkey.
So far, Ukraine and Russia haven’t shared many details about the negotiations, but the two sides have signaled that progress has been made. On Sunday, Podolyak said he thought a deal to end the fighting could be reached soon. “We will not concede in principle on any positions. Russia now understands this,” he said, according to Reuters. “I think that we will achieve some results literally in a matter of days.”
Also on Sunday, Russia’s RIA news agency quoted Leonid Slutsky, another member of the Russian negotiating team, as saying the negotiations have made good progress. “According to my personal expectations, this progress may grow in the coming days into a joint position of both delegations, into documents for signing,” Slutsky said.
Russia has said it wants Ukraine to declare neutrality, recognize Crimea as Russian, recognize the independence of the Donestk and Luhansk Republics in the Donbas, and downsize its military.
Seriously? You’re quoting the Ukrainian negotiator as saying they won’t give up any position, but the deal could done in days? Sounds like the JCPOA, doesn’t it? LOL Where do you people get this stuff?
Hmmm, the reporter “gets this stuff” by quoting the people involved on the record … pretty solid, I’d say. Oil price dropped significantly … a good sign peace may be near.
The US orchestrated side show of puppeteering their Nazi proxies in Kiev are yapping and barking along but the Russian special operation moves on according to plan….
The only way for Russia to finish this existential war against the combined west in the ukraine is liberation and de- Nazification.
There is some analogy between this war and the Soviet invasion of Poland in the early 1920’s for which Stalin was one of the commanders. Tactical blunders by the Red Army caused a defeat and retraction of the Red Army.
When Trotsky analyzed the Soviet disaster afterward he essentially stated that it is foolish to try to impose your will by war on a nation where you have little support for your aims.
That was why Hitler’s armies were welcomed in the Ruhrgebiet, in the Saar, in Austria, and in Sudentenland. After that no more.
The purpose of those negotiations is to save the lives of civilians. Otherwise it is only about the unconditional capitulation of Kiev regime.
In the beginning of Russian intervention, Putin announced the goal: 1 – the security of Donetsk and Lugansk republics. 2 – The demilitarisation of Ukraine. 3 – The denazification of Ukraine.
That means, the political system of Ukraine is going to be completely changed.
Also, once Putin talked about the “decommunisation” of Ukraine. He meant, Lenin incorporated into Ukraine the Russian lands from Odessa to Kharkov. So he hinted, those illegally separated lands, should be returned to Russia.