Ukrainian Foreign Minister KulebaMOSCOW, March 5 Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba announced the possibility of a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Turkey, if the prospect of negotiations is meaningful. Earlier, the spokesman for the ruling Justice and Development Party in Turkey, Omer Celik, said that the Turkish side was ready to hold talks between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul.
Evacuation of Turks from Ukraine through Russia was allowed in Ankara»Today we will have a conversation with our Turkish colleague, we will discuss it. There is a negotiation track, delegations have been formed from both Russia and from Ukraine, they meet on the territory of Belarus. If I see that negotiations with Sergey Lavrov can be meaningful, and this will fit into the general framework of the negotiation process, then, of course, I will not refuse,» Kuleba said on Saturday on the air of Ukrainian TV channels. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine early in the morning on Thursday, February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, the civilian population is not in danger. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the President of Russia stressed.
