The Russian- Ukrainian talks near the Belarus border concluded after about four hours, with no major breakthroughs but positive developments on improving the “logistics of humanitarian corridors,” according to a Zelensky adviser on Monday.
Negotiations on a potential ceasefire and broader political solution will continue.
In the meantime it is reported that Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet with Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba in Turkey on Thursday for the highest-level talks since the invasion began, according to Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu.
Twelve days after starting its invasion of Ukraine, Russian forces have largely stalled north on Kyiv and still do not control the skies over Ukraine, increasingly relying on missile and artillery strikes.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has now deployed into Ukraine nearly 100 percent of the more than 150,000 forces that he had pre-staged before the invasion, a senior US defence official had said.
“That’s our best estimate right now,” the official told reporters, speaking on condition of anonymity. /Argumentum.al
