Press releases from both parties are expected, but it is also known that a new meeting will take place at the Polish-Belarus border.
The Russian delegation is headed by Presidential Adviser Vladimir Medinsky, and also includes the Deputy Ministers of Defense and Foreign Affairs, Andrei Rudenko and Alexander Fomin, as well as the Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, Leonid Slutsky.
The Ukrainian side is represented by Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov. Adviser to the Head of the Presidential Office Mikhail Podolak; Head of the parliamentary faction of the ruling Servant of the People’s Party, David Arajamieh.
There is also the first deputy head of the Kyiv delegation in the contact group for resolving the situation in Donbass, Andrei Kostin; Representative Rustam Amirov; and Deputy Foreign Minister Nikolai Tuchitsky.
On Monday, Aragamia said that in the talks Ukraine needed to calmly listen and evaluate Moscow’s proposals, taking into account their impact on the country and its citizens.
Russia launched a military operation on February 24 in the Donbass Autonomous Region of Ukraine, after the authorities of the Donetsk (DPR) and Lugansk (PRL) republics requested help to repel the aggression of Kyiv.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a televised address, stated that the aim of the operation was to protect the Donbass population from the abuses and genocide committed by Kyiv over the past eight years and to disarm Ukraine, while ensuring that the Russian offensive was specifically aimed at military and not civilian points.
The government of Ukraine severed diplomatic relations with Moscow, imposed martial law in the country, and demanded financial and humanitarian assistance from the international community, while demanding sanctions and isolation of Russia by all means and formulas.
Putin said that Russia is not planning to occupy Ukrainian lands, but rather to defend the right of the Ukrainian peoples to self-determination.
(with information from PL)
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