Russia has agreed to meet Kiev half-way and will allow a meeting of its leaders to be held on the same day that the final version of a peace treaty is pre-approved by the two nation’s foreign ministers, Moscow’s top negotiator said on Tuesday, after a new round of talks …
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Russia is eager for a diplomatic solution to the conflict in Ukraine, but it won’t accept any Western mediation during its talks with Kiev, the Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. “We’re ready to give diplomacy a chance. That’s why we agreed to the talks, which are resuming in Istanbul,” …
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A new round of talks to end the Ukraine conflict began in Istanbul, Turkey on Tuesday morning. Moscow and Kiev have previously held three rounds of in-person talks and further contacts via video link, but the exchanges have failed to yield any tangible result. “We hope the meetings will be …
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Moscow has apparently dropped several key demands in the painstaking Ukraine peace talks, the Financial Times newspaper reported Monday, citing “four people briefed on the discussions.” According to the report, Moscow is now prepared to let Ukraine “join the European Union if it remains military non-aligned as part of ongoing …
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Istanbul will be the site of the next round of face-to-face peace talks between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators. They are set to begin on Monday and come as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan leverages his ties with both countries in an effort to end the ongoing conflict. David Arakhamia, the majority leader …
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Russia has ended an arrangement dating back to 1991 that allowed Japanese citizens to visit the Kuril Islands without a visa, and has broken off talks with Japan on formally ending the Second World War, citing Tokyo’s “openly unfriendly” conduct in sanctioning Moscow over the conflict in Ukraine. Due to …
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Moscow will not put on pause its military action against Ukraine while conducting peace talks with Kiev, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Monday. “You see, a pause in the operation, any pause, is used by the nationalist units to regroup, used to continue attacks against the Russian military,” …
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has argued that Ukraine will have to eventually capitulate before Russia unless it accepts the terms put forward by Moscow today. The fighting has been raging since February. “I’m convinced that, in the nearest future, this conflict – the Russian [military] operation – will end with …
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The Kremlin has said that a report in the Financial Times about a supposed 15-point draft peace plan with Ukraine was false. The sides held several rounds of talks after Russia attacked Ukraine on February 24, later switching to regular discussions via video link. Replying to a reporter’s question on …
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Vladimir Medinsky, Russia’s top negotiator at the peace talks with Ukraine, has said that Kiev is floating the idea of becoming a neutral nation. “Ukraine is proposing an Austrian or a Swedish model of a neutral demilitarized state, but with its own army and navy,” Medinsky told reporters on Wednesday, …
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