Russia gives Ukraine a deadline of 15.00 in the afternoon (16.00 Greek time) to respond to the invitation for negotiations on Belarusian territory.
“Until 15.00 we will continue to be here and wait for confirmation from the Ukrainian side for their own decision to start negotiations in Gomel (Belarus),” said the head of the Russian delegation, Vladimir Medinsky, as reported by the Russian agency TASS.
Medinsky also said that Moscow guarantees the security of the Ukrainian negotiating mission, in case it starts to reach Gomel, Belarus, where the Russian delegation is already located.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky earlier rejected the Russian proposal, saying there could be no dialogue in a country from which Russia has attacked Ukraine.
In particular, he replied that dialogue in Belarus could only take place if Russia had not attacked Ukraine from Belarus.
He added that Kiev remained open to dialogue at another point from which no attack was launched on his country.
“Warsaw, Bratislava, Budapest, Istanbul, Baku. We suggested all these cities. “And any other city would suit us,” he said in a video uploaded to the internet.
Zelensky said that last night was violent and that the Russian occupation forces “attacked civilian areas” where there is no military infrastructure. “They are attacking everywhere,” he added.
Street fights in Kharkov
Russian forces have entered Kharkov, the second largest city of Kiev broadcasts the BBC citing local Ukrainian officials.
THE head of the Kharkiv regional administration, Oleg Shinegubovstated that light military vehicles “entered the city”.
London: No talks with Russia as long as it has troops in Ukraine
THE UK Foreign Secretary Liz Trass He said that talks with Russia could not be held to resolve the crisis in Ukraine as long as Russian troops are on Ukrainian soil.
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