“That meeting is just completed, the delegation meeting follows,” that source said.
The source of the Ukrainian delegation, which arrived in Ankara early afternoon in the meetings with Turkish officials before referred to in Istanbul, said for AFP to hope for the “constructive attitude” of Russia and that it would give up “its ultimatum”.
Two consecutive meetings in the Istanbul of Russian and Ukrainian delegations, organized under the pressure of the US President Donald Trampa (Trump), brought little progress – only the exchange of prisoners and bodies of soldiers.
During the last negotiations in June, Russia reiterates the requirements, including that Ukraine gives up four other regions, in addition to the Crimea, which Russia has appropriated in 2014. year, and seeking Kiev to give up every Western military assistance and joining NATO.
Ukraine then rejected those demands, considering that it was an ultimatum.
Today, Kremlin described the negotiations as “very complicated”, further distancing the possibility of rapid diplomatic progress towards the end of the war, which began in February 2022. years.
“No one expects the easy way. Of course, it will be a very complicated discussion,” said the spokesman of the Russian President Dmitry sandpiece, repeating that the proposals of the infected parties to end the conflict “diametrally opposite.”
Ukrainian negotiators have previously met with high Turkish officials in Ankara, including President Rexhepa Tajip Erdogan, told the X-Head of Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenic, Andrij Jermak, who was there.
This, the third round of direct negotiations in Istanbul again comes to pressure from the president of the US Donald Tramp, who gave Moscow in mid-July to reach an agreement with Ukraine or face difficult sanctions.
Kiev and his western allies accuse Kremlin to block negotiations by holding maximist requirements, while the Russian army, greater and better equipped, continues the attacks daily by conquering the field in Ukraine.
On Wednesday, the Russian Ministry of Defense claimed that the new village, Varacins, in the northeastern Ukrainian region, are, where, overnight, Russian stream attacks caused the disappearance of more than 220,000 customers, in the words Zellenic.
The Ukrainian delegation, as well as in previous occasions, is led by a former Defense Minister of Rustem’s art who is considered a skilled diplomat.
The Russian team also, as earlier, leads a low-ranking official, wholesale disappointment of Ukrainian authorities: former Minister of Culture and Nationalist historian Vladimir Medinski.
According to the spokesman of the Russian President Dmitry Sands, the conversations will primarily focus on “memoranda” which two sides exchanged in June, including peace proposals.
There will also be discussed “a very important process” of the prisoner of the prisoner, the sandbox confirmed.
Kiev, said the source from the Ukrainian delegation for AFP, also wants to discuss prisoners’ exchange, as well as the repatriation of Ukrainian children taken to Russia and a potential meeting of Volodimir Zelenic and Vladimir Putin.
(Vijesti.ba)
