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By: Real America News Updated 07 Sea 2022, 13: 51 pm EST
The third round of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine ended with little progress in improving the logistics of humanitarian corridors to evacuate the civilian population, said adviser to the Office of the Ukrainian President, Mykhailo Podolyak.
There is little progress in “improving the logistics of the humanitarian corridors“, indicated the adviser, who added that the “intense consultations” on a ceasefire and security guarantees continued.
The new meeting between the two parties took place in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, in the Belarusian region of Brest, near the Polish border, as in the second appointment last day 3.
Also occurred after this Monday for the third consecutive time the planned evacuations failed due to the violation of the humanitarian ceasefire announced by Russia, for the breach of which both parties blamed each other again.
The Russian chief negotiator, Vladimir Medinski, in turn, stated that Moscow expects the humanitarian corridors to start operating this Tuesday
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“We said it clearly. We hope that tomorrow these corridors will finally start working. The Ukrainian side has given us guarantees of this,” he said, according to the Interfax agency.
Russia announced this morning a temporary ceasefire from 10: 00 local time (07: 03 GMT) for open humanitarian corridors in Kiev, Mariúpol, Járkov and Sumy with six routes, of which four would end in Russian cities such as Rostov-on-Don (route to the south) and Belgorod (to the east).
The evacuation plan for Kiev also includes passing through Belarusian territory (Gomel and Gden) with subsequent air transport to Russia.
The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories, Iryna Vereshchuk, said on Monday that these routes are “absurd, cynical and unacceptable”.
The head of the Russian National Center for Defense Control, Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev, he stated in turn that the Russian side observed the evacuation routes with drones and accused Ukraine of “not having carried out a single practical step for the preparation of humanitarian convoys”, according to the Interfax agency.
“ No one reached the open humanitarian corridors “, he maintained, and again accused the Ukrainian “nationalists” of having prevented the evacuation.
“It has been established that the nationalists, under the threat of physical violence, simply do not let civilians and foreign citizens leave these localities, he said .
Medinski further noted that talks with the Ukrainian delegation on an agreement to end what Russia dominates “special military operation” in the neighboring country will continue, although Moscow’s expectations have not materialized.
“Our expectations from the talks did not materialize, but we hope that next time we will be able to make more significant progress. Talks will continue,” he said, according to the Russian agency TASS
The first round of negotiations between the delegations of Russia and Ukraine was held on 28 February, and the second, on March 3, both in Belarusian territory.
After the second meeting, the parties reached an agreement for the establishment of humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of civilians, the delivery of food and medicine, measures that have not been successfully implemented.
With information from Efe.
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