President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukrainian and Russian officials will meet for talks at a venue on the Belarusian border with Ukraine.
Gatekeepers News reports that this talk will be the first since Russia’s full-scale invasion on Ukraine last week.
Zelenskyy said the meeting would be held without preconditions and are the result of a phone call between himself and the Belarusian president.
The Ukrainian President said in a statement, “We agreed that the Ukrainian delegation would meet with the Russian delegation without preconditions on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border, near the Pripyat River.
Meanwhile, reports say said there was “some confusion” about where the Ukraine-Russia talks will take place.
According to reports, Ukrainians are saying these talks will be held near the Ukrainian-Belarusian border, but according to the Russians believe that the talks will take place in the southeastern city of Gomel in Belarus.
Nevertheless, the Ukrainian Foreign Minister in a televised speech on Sunday said his country will “not give up a single inch of … territory” after agreeing to talks with Moscow.
“We go there [to the talks] to listen to what Russia wants to say, we are going without any … preliminary agreement on what the outcome of these talks can be. We are going there to listen and to say what we think of this war and Russia’s actions,” Kuleba said in a televised address.
“Between now and the moment that the talks are wrapped up, [Belarusian President Alexander] Lukashenko assured President Zelenskyy that no Belarusian military force will be used against Ukraine,” he added.
“We can only hope that Lukashenko will stick to his word. And between now and the moment when these talks are wrapped up, we will continue to fiercely defend our country, to defeat Russian forces if they try to continue their offensive operations.”
