“The head of the Russian delegation Volodymyr Medinsky and the Ukrainian Defense Minister of Ukraine Rustem Umerov held a bilateral meeting before the negotiations. Source: Russian State news agency “TASS” with reference to the Medinsky detail: according to media reports, the meeting lasted 2.5 hours.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Medinsky and Umerov in Istanbul on June 2. Photo – Getty Images
The head of the Russian delegation Volodymyr Medinsky and the Ukrainian Defense Minister of Ukraine Rustem Umerov held a bilateral meeting before the negotiations.
Source: Russian State news agency “TASS” with reference to Medinsky
Details: According to the media, the meeting lasted 2.5 hours. According to Medinsky, she “played an important role in the preparation of a general session of negotiations.”
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That preceded:
- The meeting between delegations of Ukraine and the Russian Federation, which lasted just over an hour, became the second since May 16.
- Before negotiating with the Russians, the First Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Kislytsia and a member of the Ukrainian delegation, Alexander Bevz met with representatives of European partners of Ukraine – Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom.
- According to the results of negotiations in Istanbul, Ukrainian and Russian delegations agreed on the next exchange of “all” for all “seriously wounded and young servicemen.
- In the evening of June 2, Russian state information agencies published the text of the Russian “Memorandum of Settlement” with proposals for ceasefire. Among them are the neutral status of Ukraine, elections and exit from four regions.