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Kyiv, Mar 07: Ukrainian Overseas Minister Dmytro Kuleba and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov to fulfill in Turkey on March 10. Turkish Overseas Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu made the announcement in short remarks to media on Monday, including he would attend the assembly within the resort metropolis of Antalya. Russian information companies confirmed the plan.
NATO member Turkey, which shares a maritime border with Russia and Ukraine within the Black Sea, has been providing to host talks.
In the meantime, the third spherical of talks between Ukraine and aggressor nation Russia will start immediately at 16.00 Kyiv time.
The second spherical of talks ended with the 2 sides agreeing to arrange humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of civilians in cities below siege.
Russia and Ukraine makes an attempt on each Saturday and Sunday to take care of a cease-fire in a number of cities lasted solely hours and left hundreds nonetheless trapped with out entry to meals, water or electrical energy.
Ukraine rejected a 3rd try on Monday, forward of the talks, after Moscow supplied protected passage from a number of cities that might take the civilians into Russia.
Kyiv has expressed a willingness to just accept certainly one of Moscow’s calls for, particularly to ensure its standing as a impartial nation and rule out the choice of becoming a member of NATO.
However Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed to proceed the battle till all his calls for are met.
These embrace Ukraine ceasing navy motion, altering its structure to enshrine neutrality, acknowledging Crimea as Russian territory and recognizing the separatist republics of Donetsk and Lugansk as unbiased territories, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov advised Reuters.
Russia invaded Ukraine in February 24, inflicting the worst refugee disaster in Europe since World Conflict II.
(with company inputs)
Story first printed: Monday, March 7, 2022, 18:28 [IST]