Belarusian Foreign Ministry buildingMINSK, Feb. 28The negotiation platform for Russia and Ukraine has been prepared, the arrival of delegations is expected, Sputnik Belarus quotes the words of the press secretary of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry Anatoly Glaz. «The platform for negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in Belarus has been prepared, the arrival of delegations is expected,» he said. ready to organize the process at any moment. The talks will begin as soon as all the delegations arrive at the meeting place, the spokesman said. According to sources close to the process, the Ukrainian delegation is already on the territory of Belarus. So, according to political scientist Yuri Voskresensky, they are heading to the place of negotiations on the banks of the Pripyat. In addition, there is information that the time of the negotiations may shift — the Ukrainian delegation will want to sleep after the road, the source said.A member of the Ukrainian delegation at the talks with Russia shared his expectationsThe talks were supposed to take place the day before. The Russian delegation, headed by presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, arrived in Gomel, the city chosen by the Ukrainian side. But a little later, Vladimir Zelensky said that Kyiv was not satisfied with Belarus and the negotiations should take place in some other country. Nevertheless, after a telephone conversation between Alexander Lukashenko and the Ukrainian president, the meeting was agreed upon — according to Sputnik Belarus, it will take place in the Gomel region, at the Aleksandrovka-Vilcha checkpoint. and intensified the shelling of the DPR and LPR, using equipment prohibited by the Minsk agreements. Because of the threat of Ukraine's invasion, the authorities of the republics began the evacuation of women, children and the elderly to the Russian regions, announced a general mobilization, and on February 19 asked Russia to recognize their independence. Two days later, on February 21, Vladimir Putin signed decrees recognizing the sovereignty of the LPR and the DPR , and on February 24 announced the start of a special operation. He assured that Moscow's plans do not include the occupation of Ukraine, only its demilitarization and denazification. The head of state called the goal of the operation to protect the residents of the DPR and LPR, who had been subjected to genocide for eight years. He also called on the Ukrainian military not to follow criminal orders, lay down their arms and go home. According to Putin, all responsibility for the bloodshed will be on the conscience of the Kiev regime. The Ministry of Defense stressed that they do not strike civilian targets on the territory of Ukraine — only military infrastructure; nothing threatens the civilian population.The development of the situation is in the online report >>
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