MOSCOW, Mar 14A member of the Ukrainian delegation, head of the ruling Servant of the People faction in the Verkhovna Rada, David Arakhamia, said that negotiations with Russia via video link will begin on Monday at 10.30. .ua». Earlier, Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the office of Vladimir Zelensky, said that the working groups created as part of the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine are constantly functioning, on March 14, negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv will be held to sum up preliminary results. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov told RIA News that Russian-Ukrainian talks are scheduled for Monday. Three rounds of talks between the Russian Federation and Ukraine on the settlement of relations have already taken place in Belarus. During the second round, the parties reached an understanding on the joint provision of humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of citizens, the delivery of food and medicine. Later, Podolyak said that negotiations between the delegations of Russia and Ukraine are ongoing in video format, special working groups have been created. The head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, a member of the Russian delegation, Leonid Slutsky, noted on Sunday that, comparing the positions of the Russian and Ukrainian sides at the beginning of the negotiations and today , we can talk about significant progress, progress in the dialogue can develop into a common position of the parties and the signing of documents. According to him, the signing of the documents will form the basis for reducing the degree of tension during the Russian special operation and saving people's lives. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on 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 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. 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 emphasized.
