Third round of Russia-Ukraine negotiations to take place next week
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A third round of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine will take place early next week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov confirmed Thursday.
A third round of negotiations will take place early next week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday.
Russian forces pressed their war on Ukraine, seizing a strategic seaport and threatening to overtake a major energy hub even as the two sides met in Belarus and negotiated safe corridors to safely evacuate citizens.
In a video address to the nation earlier in the day, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on Ukrainians to keep up their resistance as the war raged on for an eighth day.
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A member of Ukraine’s delegation sent to speak with the Russians said both sides have agreed to establish corridors for civilians to safely leave combat zones. The corridors will include cease-fires along the path, said Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Zelenskyy.
Humanitarian supplies could be delivered though the corridors, which were the Ukrainians’ main demand heading into their second round of negotiations in Belarus, in the Brest region that borders Poland.
Russian President Vladimir Putin also announced the safe zones.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had told reporters ahead of the meeting Russia would press its military action until achieving its goals, chiefly the “demilitarization of Ukraine,” but added it will be up to Ukrainians to choose what government they should have.