Kyiv March 4 2022: Ukrainian negotiator Mykhailo Podolyak says that “with a great regret” the latest talks between Russia and Ukraine “haven’t achieved the results we were hoping for”.
Ukrainian negotiator Mykhailo Podolyak says the sides have reached an understanding on “jointly securing humanitarian corridors to evacuate peaceful civilians, and also on supplying medicine and food to the places of the most fierce fighting”.
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He adds there is a possibility, “I stress, with a possibility of a temporary ceasefire for the evacuation period in certain sectors”.
But he says the two sides agreed to continue negotiations in “the nearest future”.
“The only thing I can say is that we discussed the humanitarian aspect in details, because quite a lot of cities are now surrounded,” he says.
Russian presidential aide and former culture minister Vladimir Medinsky tells news channel Rossiya 24 it was possible to find mutual understanding on some points of negotiation – “the main issue that we resolved today is the issue of saving people, civilians who found themselves in the zone of military clashes”.
He says the two defence ministries have agreed a format for maintaining humanitarian corridors “for the exit of the civilian population [and] on the possible temporary cessation of hostilities in the sector of the humanitarian corridor for the period of the exit of the civilian population”.
“I think that this is significant progress,” he adds.
News agency Reuters is reporting that the next round of talks will take place at the start of next week.
