It would be a subsequent step to the meeting held this Friday between negotiators of both countries. The first conversations lasted just over an hour.
After a first round of peace conversations between Russia and Ukraine, the “Next step” To find an exit to the conflict, it must be a meeting between the presidents Volodimir Zelenski and Vladimir Putin. The statement arose from one of the main Ukrainian negotiators, after the meeting organized in Türkiye.
The “next step” must be an encounter between Vladimir Putin and Volodimir Zelenski
“I think the next step would be to organize a meeting at the level of the leaders“The Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Uumerov. He affirmed it in a brief intervention before the journalists, after representatives of Ukraine and Russia met for the first time in more than three years in the Turkish city of Istanbul, according to AFP information.
The conversations took place in the absence of both presidents and lasted about an hour and forty minutes. Among the subsequent ads, there was also talk of an exchange of war prisoners and the possibility of establishing a fire stop.
A claim that transcended from Moscow includes the withdrawal of kyiv forces of “wide parts of the Ukrainian territory”, as a condition prior to the establishment of a fire stop, said another source in conversation with AFP.
Putin and Zelenski
Ukraine and Russia held their first peace -to -to -face conversations in three years
Russia and Ukraine made a first peace meeting after three yearsafter the conflict began in February 2022. It developed in Türkiye and both nations agreed to exchange 1,000 war prisoners on each side. The information was confirmed by the negotiators of both parties in televised statements separately.
“In the next few days there will be a Exchange of large -scale prisoners, 1,000 for 1,000, “said the Russian negotiator Vladimir Medinski. For its part, the main Ukrainian intermediator, the Minister of Defense Rustem umerovHe also confirmed the exchange and said that the fire and a possible meeting between the leaders of both countries were talked about, according to the AFP agency.
Source: Ambito
