Russia and Ukraine will hold a negotiating session by videoconference on Monday, Mykhailo Podoliak, a negotiator and adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, confirmed on Sunday.
“A negotiating session will be held on Monday to summarize the preliminary results” of the talks, he wrote on Twitter.
A little earlier, the spokesman of the Russian presidency, Dmitry Peskov, announced that the contacts would take place on Monday by videoconference.
“Negotiations continue uninterrupted via videoconference. Working groups are constantly active. There are many issues that require constant attention,” Podoliak said.
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A Russian negotiator said Sunday that talks were progressing.
“If we compare the position of the two delegations between the start of negotiations and now, we see significant progress,” said Leonid Slutski, a member of the Russian delegation that recently met with Ukrainian negotiators in Belarus.
“My personal expectation is that this progress will very soon lead to a common position between the two delegations and the signing of documents,” he added, quoted by Russian news agencies.
Since the start of Moscow’s military offensive on 24 February, three rounds of talks have been held in Belarus, focusing mainly on the creation of humanitarian corridors for civilians.
Russia expands military targets in Ukraine
Russia expanded its military targets in Ukraine on Sunday with attacks on a military base near the border with Poland, where it said it had killed “foreign mercenaries,” while Kiev reported that more than 2,100 civilians had already been killed in one of its besieged cities.
Overnight, Russian forces attacked the Yavoriv military base, about 40 kilometers northwest of Lviv, the destination of thousands of internally displaced people, and located about 20 kilometers from the border with NATO member Poland.
In recent years, these facilities hosted exercises with foreign instructors.
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Further south, in Mariupol, a port city besieged for 13 days, encircled and bombed residents were still waiting for humanitarian aid to arrive.
The invaders “cynically and deliberately attack residential buildings, densely populated areas, destroy children’s hospitals and urban infrastructure (…) To date, 2,187 inhabitants of Mariupol have been killed in the Russian attacks,” the city’s mayor said on Telegram on Sunday.
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