The third round of talks between Ukraine and aggressor country Russia will begin today at 16.00 Kyiv time, adviser to the head of the President’s Office Mykhailo Podoliak said.
Mykhailo Podoliak, an adviser to the head of the Ukrainian President’s Office, announced on Twitter.
“Negotiations with the Russian Federation. Third round. Beginning at 16.00 Kyiv time. Delegation unchanged,” he wrote.
Ukraine rejects humanitarian corridors that lead to Russia
A senior Ukrainian official on Monday rejected a Russian proposal to evacuate civilians from besieged Ukraine to Russia and Belarus.
“This is an unacceptable option for opening humanitarian corridors,” Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk said at a briefing.
According to the Russian proposal, the only options for civilians fleeing Kyiv and its suburbs would be to go to Gomel in neighboring Belarus. Civilians in Kharkiv and Sumy in eastern Ukraine would have to flee to the Russian city of Belgorod.
Belarus is a key ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin and served as a launching ground for the invasion.
The Ukrainian government is proposing eight humanitarian corridors, including from the southern port of Mariupol, that would allow civilians to travel to the western regions of Ukraine, where there is no Russian shelling.
On February 28, negotiations between representatives of Russia and Ukraine began on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border. The second round of these negotiations took place on 3 March.
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