{"id":123129,"date":"2022-02-28T17:05:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T00:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=123129"},"modified":"2022-02-28T17:05:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T00:05:28","slug":"ukraine-russia-negotiations-have-reached-certain-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/02\/28\/ukraine-russia-negotiations-have-reached-certain-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine-Russia negotiations have reached \u2018certain decisions\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy RT<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Ceasefire talks hosted by Belarus adjourn for consultations<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a9 Getty Images \/ MicroStockHub<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moscow and Kiev have found certain things that could be agreed on during the ceasefire talks hosted by Belarus and will return for consultations before the next round, both delegations told reporters after the talks ended on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main purpose of the talks was to discuss a ceasefire in Ukraine, said Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The two sides have identified a number of priority topics, on which certain solutions have been outlined,\u201d<\/em> he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two delegations found points on which common positions could be reached, confirmed Vladimir Medinsky, aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday\u2019s talks, which lasted for nearly five hours, took place in Belarus near the Russian and the Ukrainian borders. The next round will take place on the border between Belarus and Poland in the coming days, Medinsky said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine\u2019s delegation was led by Defense Minister Alexey Reznikov, and its main demand was an immediate ceasefire and withdrawal of all Russian troops from the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zelensky said on Sunday he didn\u2019t really believe the negotiations would succeed, but thought they were a chance, however small, to de-escalate the situation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the talks were ongoing, Zelensky sent a formal request for Ukraine\u2019s EU membership to Brussels. Meanwhile, Russia has put its nuclear deterrent forces on highest alert amid NATO moves to send weapons to Kiev.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moscow ordered military forces into Ukraine on Thursday, saying Kiev needs to be demilitarized\u201d<\/em> and denazified\u201d<\/em> to protect the breakaway republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, as well as Russia itself. Ukraine and its Western supporters accused Russia of unprovoked\u201d<\/em> aggression. The UK, US, EU and several other countries have imposed sweeping sanctions targeting not just the Russian economy, but Putin and other senior Russian officials personally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy RT Ceasefire talks hosted by Belarus adjourn for consultations \u00a9 Getty Images \/ MicroStockHub Moscow and Kiev have found certain things that could be agreed on during the ceasefire talks hosted by Belarus and will return for consultations before the next round, both delegations told reporters after the talks ended on Monday. The main […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}