Russia once again rejected the kyiv proposal of a meeting between the presidents of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, and Russia, Vladimir Putin.
Russia and Ukraine completed a third round of negotiationswith a meeting marked by its brevity in which they committed themselves to continue exchanging prisoners, but they did not make any advance towards the end of the war or a temporary truce.
Russia once again rejected kyiv’s proposal from a meeting between the presidents of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, and Russia, Vladimir Putin, To give an impulse to the negotiating process and that kyiv also wanted to invite the presidents of Türkiye and the United States, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Donald Trump, respectively.
“Actually, In that meeting you should not discuss the agreement, but to put an end to sign, ” Said the head of the Russian negotiating team, Vladimir Medinski, after the meeting in the Turkish city.
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Ukraine had raised that the four -band meeting was held before the end of August, a period that overcomes With the fifty -day ultimatum on July 14 by Trump to Putin to access the weapons before the US dictates new sanctions against Russia.
Two opposite perspectives
As Medianski’s response reflects, and it had already happened in the two previous negotiation rounds, the Kremlin emissaries emphasized the resolution of the background issues of the conflict, while the Ukrainians requested unsuccessfully a high fire that ends at least at least the attacks on critical infrastructures and civil nature.
“We emphasize that the high fire must be genuine and should include a complete cessation of attacks on civil and critical infrastructure,” he said, “in a press conference,” The envoy of Ukraine, Rustem Umrov, currently secretary of the National Security Council and defense and until recently Ukrainian Minister of Defense.
“The positions are quite distant”Medianski replied on disagreements that prevent a fire and a peace agreement.
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Russia demands from Ukraine the reduction of its army, the renunciation of the territories that Moscow has declared Russians, the withdrawal to its aspirations to enter NATO and declare itself neutral.
For its part, Ukraine considers all these conditions inasumableask for a high immediate fire to deepen the negotiations and demand firm security guarantees of its international partners before any peace agreement is signed.
Humanitarian progress
Given the impossibility of substantive agreements, the Ukrainian negotiating chief stressed that “certain progress in the humanitarian aspect” was achieved, after the parties agreed on the continuation of the exchanges of prisoners who began in the two previous appointments in Istanbul.
Uumrov said that these are captive civilians, in addition to prisoners of war, and explained that the Russian delegation accepted that those who have been in prison for more than three years have been exchanged, especially if they are seriously injured or young.
Moscow representatives raised kyiv to declare treguas of 24 and 48 hours in specific front sectorsfor health teams to evacuate without risk for integrity to wounded soldiers and the bodies of the fallen.
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With regard to Ukrainian children transferred to Russia from the territories occupied in Ukraine and that the Zelenski government demands they are returned, Medinski explained that Moscow has studied the list of 339 names provided by kyiv at the previous meeting in Türkiye and that has already returned to about twenty of these minors.
The Russian negotiator added that the rest of the children will be returned if their parents, close relatives or legal representatives.
The Kremlin emissary also revealed that the Russian part proposed to create three working groups (political, military and humanitarian) to start working remotely and constantly without traveling to Istanbul and thus “save time and money to taxpayers.”
