MOSCOW, Mar 17 The very fact of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine is progress, the official said Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. «Negotiations are underway — this is an indicator of progress. Progress is that negotiations are underway. As for the substance that is being discussed, it is impossible to talk about what is progress and what is not progress without disclosing the essence of the negotiations , but they are closed. Therefore, we proceed from the fact that the negotiations themselves, their progress is an indicator that this process is underway, this is progress,» Zakharova said at a briefing.
Yesterday, 19:45 Exacerbation of the situation in the DPR and LPR Kyiv announced that they had found common positions in negotiations with RussiaAdvisor to the head of Zelensky's office, Mikhail Podolyak, believes that Russia and Ukraine will sooner or later reach a peace treaty. According to him, the positions of the parties in the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine on the aggravated situation on Ukrainian territory were different, and now they are beginning to reach some kind of compromise. At the same time, Volodymyr Zelensky, in an interview with NBC television, later said that negotiations between Ukraine and Russia were ongoing and were progressing “quite hard.” According to the head of the Russian delegation at the talks, aide to the President of the Russian Federation little progress on a number of issues, although overall the process is difficult and slow. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that «there are specific wordings on the negotiating table that are close to being agreed.» After that, the delegations met two more times in early March — in Belovezhskaya Pushcha and Brest region. Now negotiations are conducted in a daily format via video link for convenience and saving time and effort. In addition, on March 10, in Antalya, with the mediation of Turkey, a meeting was held between the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Russia and Ukraine, Sergey Lavrov and Dmitry Kuleba. 12The aggravation of the situation in the DNR and LPR The Foreign Ministry announced that they were discussing the lifting of sanctions in negotiations with Ukraine
