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According to the report, Russia and Ukraine will hold US-brokered talks on February 17-18 in Geneva, both countries said Friday, announcing the next leg in fraught negotiations seeking to end the four-year war.
The report stated that US President Donald Trump is pushing to end the conflict, unleashed when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, but two previous rounds of US-meditated talks in Abu Dhabi have not yielded any signs of a breakthrough. Both sides said publicly the discussions were productive, but Moscow and Kyiv remain far apart on the key issue of territory.
The report also stated that the next round of talks on the Ukrainian settlement will be held in the same trilateral Russia-US-Ukraine format, on February 17–18 in Geneva.
Peskov said Moscow’s delegation to Geneva will be headed by Vladimir Medinsky, a hawkish ex-culture minister who led previous failed talks in Turkey, in a switch from the senior military officials who led two previous rounds in Abu Dhabi. Kyiv confirmed the talks were set for the scenic Swiss city.
The report said that THE Ukrainian delegation has already begun preparing for this meeting, said its top negotiator Rustem Umerov, head of Ukraine’s National Security Council. The report added that he will be joined by Zelenskyy’s chief of staff and former spy master, Kyrylo Budanov, and a host of other officials.
The report added that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday arrived in Munich to hold rounds of meetings with European and US officials, seeking support from allies ahead of the talks. He also toured a Ukrainian-German drone production facility.
The report said that Russia has continued to batter Ukrainian cities in recent days, killing six people across the country in overnight strikes that targeted the southern port city of Odesa and energy infrastructure.
Additionally, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and tens of thousands of civilians have been killed in the four-year conflict, Europe’s deadliest since World War II. Russia occupies around one-fifth of Ukrainian land, including the Crimean Peninsula, which it seized in 2014, and areas that Moscow-backed separatists had taken before the 2022 invasion.
Source: The Defense Post
The report stated that US President Donald Trump is pushing to end the conflict, unleashed when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, but two previous rounds of US-meditated talks in Abu Dhabi have not yielded any signs of a breakthrough. Both sides said publicly the discussions were productive, but Moscow and Kyiv remain far apart on the key issue of territory.
The report also stated that the next round of talks on the Ukrainian settlement will be held in the same trilateral Russia-US-Ukraine format, on February 17–18 in Geneva.
Peskov said Moscow’s delegation to Geneva will be headed by Vladimir Medinsky, a hawkish ex-culture minister who led previous failed talks in Turkey, in a switch from the senior military officials who led two previous rounds in Abu Dhabi. Kyiv confirmed the talks were set for the scenic Swiss city.
The report said that THE Ukrainian delegation has already begun preparing for this meeting, said its top negotiator Rustem Umerov, head of Ukraine’s National Security Council. The report added that he will be joined by Zelenskyy’s chief of staff and former spy master, Kyrylo Budanov, and a host of other officials.
The report added that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday arrived in Munich to hold rounds of meetings with European and US officials, seeking support from allies ahead of the talks. He also toured a Ukrainian-German drone production facility.
The report said that Russia has continued to batter Ukrainian cities in recent days, killing six people across the country in overnight strikes that targeted the southern port city of Odesa and energy infrastructure.
Additionally, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and tens of thousands of civilians have been killed in the four-year conflict, Europe’s deadliest since World War II. Russia occupies around one-fifth of Ukrainian land, including the Crimean Peninsula, which it seized in 2014, and areas that Moscow-backed separatists had taken before the 2022 invasion.
Source: The Defense Post
