A Russian delegation member, Leonid Slutsky, says according to the Russian RIA that there has been significant progress in the negotiation process.
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At the same time, Ukraine’s presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolja – who is also a member of the country’s negotiating delegation – says that the negotiations have become more constructive.
– We do not make concessions on a principled basis in any area. Russia understands this now, and Russia has begun to speak more constructively. I think we can get some results in a few days, he says in a video recording, according to The Guardian.
“Will save many people”
A Russian delegation member, Leonid Slutsky, also says according to the RIA news agency that there has been significant progress, and that both parties hope to reach a “common position” and a document that can be signed, according to Reuters.
“Compared to the beginning of the negotiation process, Moscow and Kyiv have made significant progress in achieving a result,” he said, according to the RIA.
According to the news agency, he pointed out that the agreements between the parties will help reduce tensions and “save many people”.
“According to my personal expectations, this progress can develop into a unified position for both delegations over the next few days,” Slutsky said in an interview with the Russian TV channel RT, according to RIA.
US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy R. Sherman tells Fox News that Russian diplomats have begun to show willingness to have “real, serious negotiations” to end the war in Ukraine, in part because of the devastating sanctions imposed on Russia’s economy.
Can be a new round of negotiations
Moscow and Kyiv continue to work on the negotiations between themselves, President Volodymyr Zelenskyj’s adviser Mikhail Podoljak told the Russian newspaper Kommersant Sunday morning.
According to Podoljak, the parties had begun drafting agreements, but the details of these agreements are not known.
– As soon as mutual legal documents have been prepared, a meeting will be set up – the fourth round of negotiations. It could be tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. It is probably not necessary that we just continue with conversations. We have discussed all the problems, and now we are trying to prepare this for legal agreements, Podoljak tells the newspaper.
Encouraged ceasefire
So far, the parties have had three rounds of negotiations in Belarus, the last on Monday a week ago.
The negotiations have primarily revolved around humanitarian issues and have so far resulted in the opening of some corridors for civilians fleeing the fighting.
On Saturday, the office of President Emmanuel Macron announced that Vladimir Putin does not seem to be willing to end the war in Ukraine. Macron and German Prime Minister Olaf Scholz are said to have called on Putin to declare an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine and move towards a diplomatic solution, writes CNN.
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