Third round of talks between Ukraine, Russia delegations to be held today

Moscow [Russia], March 7 (ANI): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s aide Mykhailo Podolyak informed that the third round of negotiations between the delegations of Ukraine and Russia will begin at 14:00 GMT on Monday.
The composition of the Ukrainian delegation will remain the same, an adviser to the Ukrainian presidential office and a member of the Ukrainian delegation, Podolyak, said on Monday.
“Negotiations with the Russian Federation. Third round. Beginning at 16.00 Kyiv time. Delegation unchanged,” Podolyak tweeted.
The first round of talks between the two sides was held in the Gomel region of Belarus on February 28. The talks are aimed at finding a way to end the Ukraine conflict. Following the talks, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office said Russia and Ukraine identified some priority topics on which they have outlined certain decisions.
The second round of talks between Russia and Ukraine over the crisis in Ukraine was held in Belarus on March 3. The Russian delegation, in the first talks, was headed by presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky. Earlier, Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office said the key “issue of the negotiations is an immediate ceasefire and the withdrawal of troops from the territory of Ukraine.”
Russian forces launched military operations in Ukraine on February 24, three days after Moscow recognized Ukraine’s breakaway regions, Donetsk and Luhansk as independent republics followed by the announcement of a “special military operation” to “demilitarize” and “denazify” Ukraine. (ANI)