Negotiations between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations have begun in Belarus.
The meeting of the two delegations is taking place near the Pripyat River on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border.
According to UNIAN, the Ukrainian delegation includes People’s Party leader David Arahamiya, Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov, adviser to President Mikhail Podolyak’s chief of staff, and Andrei Kostin, head of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group, MP Rustem Umerov and Deputy Foreign Minister Nikolai Tochicki.
It is stressed that the key topic of the negotiations will be an immediate ceasefire and the withdrawal of Russian troops from the territory of Ukraine.ж