Negotiations will take place in Belovezhskaya Puscha in Belarus.
QUICK FACTS:
- The Russian News Agency (TASS) reported a second round of talks between the Ukrainian and Russian delegation will take place Wednesday evening.
- President Vladimir Putin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov announced that Moscow’s “delegation will be ready to continue the conversation this evening.”
- The new meeting was confirmed by Alexey Arestovich, advisor to the head of the Ukrainian Presidential Office, according to Hromadske TV.
- Arestovich stressed that Ukraine would “hold its ground.”
- TASS noted that the new round will take place in Belovezhskaya Puscha in Belarus.
- Peskov refused, however, to disclose the exact location in Belarus where the second round of talks would be held.
- The Russian delegation is reportedly now en route to the location.
RUSSIA SAYS PEACE IS ON THE TABLE:
- Peskov made it clear that the Russian delegation would be seeking the fulfillment of the key conditions for peace in Ukraine outlined earlier by Putin, according to RT News.
BACKGROUND:
- Russia and Ukraine previously held talks on the border between Ukraine and Putin-allied Belarus on Monday.
- The Belovezh forest on Belarus-Poland border, where the negotiations will allegedly be held, is a biosphere reserve and is where in December 1991 the then-leaders of Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus signed an eponymous accord that dissolved the Soviet Union, according to RT News.
