The office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says officials will meet for talks with a Russian delegation at the Belarus border. AFP reports that the transfer comes after a cellphone name between Zelensky and Belarusian leader, Alexander Lukashenko.
“The politicians agreed that the Ukrainian delegation would meet the Russian one with out preconditions at the Ukraine-Belarus border, near the Pripyat River.”
It’s understood that during the name between Zelensky and Lukashenko, the chief of Belarus gave assurances that “all planes, helicopters, and missiles stationed on Belarus territory will stay on the ground in the course of the journey, negotiations and return of the Ukrainian delegation”.
The Kremlin had wanted to carry talks in Belarus itself, with Russian President Vladimir Putin saying there was a Russian delegation prepared for talks in the city of Gomel. However, Zelensky has refused to agree to talks in Belarus, after Russian troops were allowed to assemble on the northern border with Ukraine prior to the invasion. Instead, Kyiv had proposed the cities of Warsaw, Istanbul, Baku, Bratislava, or Budapest as options.
Ukraine continues to defend itself towards the Russian invasion, managing to carry off Putin’s troops from coming into Ukraine’s second metropolis of Kharkiv yesterday. In Banned ’s latest transfer, the Russian chief has ordered his nuclear deterrent forces on high alert, an escalatory move which has been strongly condemned by the worldwide neighborhood.
Meanwhile, protests against the invasion of Ukraine have been happening in cities across the world, most notably in Russian cities like Moscow and St Petersburg, with over 2,000 people detained up to now..