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President of Ukraine rejects talks with Russia in Belarus
Russia announced the sending of negotiators to Belarus to talk with Ukraine, but the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, refused to talk in this country
for considering him complicit in the Russian aggression suffered by his State.
“The Russian delegation,
made up of representatives of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defense and other entities, including the Presidential Administration, came to Belarus to talk with the Ukrainians. We are ready to start talks in Gomel,” announced the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov.
From Kiev, Zelensky responded that Russia uses Belarusian territory to attack his country and stated that therefore the venue for the talks will have to be another.
“If aggressive actions did not take place from your territories, we might talk in Minsk, in your city. But now we say: no Minsk. The space for the meeting can be in other cities”, He stated in a televised message.
“Warsaw, Budapest, Istanbul, Baku, we proposed all this to the Russian side, and in fact any other city in any country from which missiles are not launched at us is worth it”said.
Zelensky claimed that Ukrainians “want to talk, they want the war to end.”
According to the Ukrainian president, “Only then will the talks be honest and be able to end the war.”
The possibility of talks between Moscow and Kiev to end the war has been under discussion since last Friday, when the Ukrainian president left the door ajar to the possibility of Ukraine declaring its neutrality.
However, Until now, the main obstacle lies in the venue for the dialogue, since Kiev rejects the possibility of talking in Belarus, from where part of the Russian forces entered Ukraine.
