Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, positively assessed the results of the third meeting of the Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Istanbul, as thanks to it, it was possible to agree on the exchange of bodies of the deceased.
“To achieve a settlement of the conflict, a thorough conversation is necessary, and not in public,” the Russian President noted. For this reason, Moscow proposed the creation of three negotiating groups, but they have not yet started working.
“The first reaction of the Ukrainian side, as it seemed to us, was positive,” Vladimir Putin added.
He emphasized that Russia’s conditions on the Ukraine issue, which were voiced in the summer of 2024, remain unchanged.
