Ukrainian President Volodymyr ZelenskyMOSCOW, Mar 14Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the goal of negotiations with Russia is to obtain «effective guarantees», without specifying which ones. Zelensky also added that the task of the Ukrainian delegation at the talks with the Russian Federation is to achieve his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. peace, for security. So that we have guarantees, normal and effective. Not like in Budapest, not like in our sky. But such that Ukrainians can say — this works, these are guarantees,» Zelensky said in a video message published in his Telegram channel. «This is a difficult story, a difficult path, but the path is necessary,» he said about the prospect of negotiations with Putin. the task is clear — to do everything so that a meeting of the presidents takes place, a meeting that, I am sure, people are waiting for,» Zelensky said in an address. He noted that «it is necessary to speak,» including In particular, thanks to the talks in Ukraine, «more than 10» humanitarian corridors worked, on Sunday more than 5,000 people were evacuated. Three rounds of negotiations 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 special 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 stressed.
