“The negotiations with Ukraine are being held every day, seven days a week, in a format of video conferences,” said Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky.
Negotiations between Russia and Ukraine are being held daily, Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, also the head of the Russian delegation, said on Monday.
“The negotiations with Ukraine are being held every day, seven days a week, in a format of video conferences,” Medinsky posted on his Telegram account. Medinsky said video meetings save time and are more efficient.
“We are striving to do everything that is possible to fulfill the tasks set by (Russian President) Vladimir Putin for Russia’s peaceful future,” he wrote.
The fourth round of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine occurred earlier on Monday via video link. According to Ukrainian Presidential Advisor Mykhailo Podolyak, a member of the delegation, a technical pause has been taken in the negotiations until Tuesday.
External electricity supplies have been restored at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant, four days after its disconnection from the power grid, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Sunday.
Ukraine’s regulatory authorities told the IAEA that Ukrainian specialist teams repaired one of the two damaged power lines at Chernobyl on Sunday, enabling all required off-site power to be delivered to the plant, the United Nations nuclear watchdog said in a daily statement.
The plant will be connected to the Ukrainian electricity grid on Monday morning, according to Ukraine’s regulator.
The Chernobyl plant was disconnected from the power grid on Wednesday and has been operating on backup diesel generators. The plant is currently controlled by Russian armed forces.
“This is a positive development as the Chernobyl nuclear power plant has had to rely on emergency diesel generators for several days now,” the IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi said. “However, I remain gravely concerned about safety and security at Chernobyl and Ukraine’s other nuclear facilities.”
The Chernobyl nuclear plant, some 110 km north of Kyiv, witnessed one of the worst nuclear accidents in human history on April 26, 1986.
On Feb. 24, advisor to the Head of the President’s Office of Ukraine Mykhailo Podoliak said Russian forces have seized the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Russia is showing signs that it might be willing to have substantive negotiations over Ukraine, even as Moscow is currently intent on “destroying” its neighbour, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said on March 13.
Sherman, in an interview with Fox News Sunday, said the United States is putting “enormous pressure” on Russian President Vladimir Putin to agree to a cease-fire in its weeks-old invasion of Ukraine and to allow the creation of humanitarian corridors so that civilians can escape.
“That pressure is beginning to have some effect. We are seeing some signs of a willingness to have real, serious negotiations. But I have to say … so far it appears Vladimir Putin is intent on destroying Ukraine,” Sherman said.
Sherman did not elaborate on hints Moscow may have provided about talks.
Sherman was asked about the Biden administration’s decision to not facilitate the transfer of Polish jets to Ukraine, saying Kyiv needed other military hardware.
“What Ukrainians needed was anti-aircraft, anti-tank and anti-armour weapons, which is what we are supplying them in great measure and coordinating with other countries to do the same,” Sherman said.
Sherman’s comments came as Russia said on Sunday it had attacked the Yavoriv training facility in western Ukraine, adding the strike had killed “up to 180 foreign mercenaries” and destroyed a large number of weapons supplied by outside nations.
Defence ministry spokesperson Igor Konashenkov told a briefing that Russia would continue its attacks against what he called foreign mercenaries.
While a Russian delegate to talks with Ukraine said “there has been considerable progress since the Russia-Ukraine talks began,” TASS reported on Sunday.
The report cited Russian negotiator Leonid Slutsky, who said talks with Ukraine may soon produce draft agreements. “It may be possible to reach a joint position between the two delegations soon,” said the official.
Ukrainian negotiator and presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak on Sunday said he thought progress could be made at talks with Russia in the coming days as the Russian side had become more constructive, according to Reuters.
Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday and urged them to influence the Kyiv authorities to stop “criminal acts” of Ukrainian “nationalist battalions,” according to the Kremlin.
Macron and Scholz urged an immediate ceasefire and a diplomatic solution to the conflict in Ukraine, the German government said in a statement, noting the 75-minute talk as part of the ongoing international efforts to end the conflict.
Dmitry Peskov, press secretary for Putin, said on Sunday that a meeting between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky could not be ruled out, but first they need to know what will be discussed at the meeting and what the results will be.
He also said it was too early to talk about the outcome of the talks between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations.
Zelensky said on Saturday that NATO members are lacking courage and consensus on whether to accept Ukraine.
A member of the Ukrainian negotiating delegation says Ukraine and Russia are close to reaching a compromise on signing relevant agreements.
The Kremlin says talks between Moscow and Kyiv have continued via video link.
The two sides have held three rounds of talks so far and agreed on establishing humanitarian corridors.
Russia said on Sunday (March 13) it had attacked the Yavoriv training facility in western Ukraine, adding the strike had killed “up to 180 foreign mercenaries” and destroyed a large number of weapons supplied by outside nations.
Several buildings collapsed after Russian missiles hit a Ukrainian base in Yavoriv, 25km from the border with Poland on March 13.
Russia said on Sunday it had attacked the Yavoriv training facility in western Ukraine, adding the strike had killed “up to 180 foreign mercenaries” and destroyed a large number of weapons supplied by outside nations.
Defense ministry spokesperson Igor Konashenkov told a briefing that Russia would continue its attacks against what he called foreign mercenaries.
Reuters could not independently verify the statements.
Ukrainian regional governor Maksym Kozytskyy said 35 people were killed and 134 wounded in the attack.
Konashenkov said Russia had used high precision long-range weapons to strike Yavoriv and a separate facility in the village of Starichi. He said both bases were being used to train foreign mercenaries and store weapons.
The attack came one day after Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Moscow considered convoys of Western arms shipments to Ukraine to be legitimate targets.
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