In detail | Five meetings and five failures at the beginning of the war: the meetings between Russia and Ukraine of 2022
Delegations of Ukraine and Russia meet this Friday in Istanbul to discuss the path to a high fire agreement that ends the most deadly and prolonged war that Europe has lived since World War II. This, however, is not the first time that representatives of both countries are to find a negotiated exit to the conflict. Already between February and April 2022, shortly after the beginning of the Russian invasion, they had tried without success, mainly because of kyiv’s refusal to accept the Russian demands, which he considered as a surrender to the invader.
There were five meetings before today in Istanbul. The first took place on February 28, 2022 in Belarusbut concluded without pacts to consolidate possible humanitarian truces. Later, On March 3, at another meeting in the same country, The implementation of highs to the fire short and located in some regions to create civilian evacuation runners was agreed.
He March 10, 2022 were found in Antalyain Türkiye, Russian and Ukraine Foreign Ministers, Sergei Lavrov and Dmitro Kuleba, respectively, to talk about a cessation of bombings in the Ukraine region of Mariupol. However, the dialogue lasted two hours and there was no agreement.
Weeks later, On March 29, a cycle of face -to -face dialogues between Russian and Ukrainian representatives began in Istanbul. The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, announced the withdrawal of his troops in northern kyiv as a “gesture of good will” and that Ukraine scored as a victory. Both parties described the negotiations as productive and In the following rounds held in April by videoconferenceit was agreed that Ukraine would be a neutral country without adhering to blocks or alliances such as NATO, in exchange for security guarantees of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (China, France, Russia, United Kingdom and the US).
The dialogue failed after Russia perpetrated the massacre of civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha And to make additional demands, that kyiv rejected. Among other things, it demanded the reduction of the Ukrainian army to the 85,000 troops; give up entering NATO; Recognize the annexation of Crimea, which happened in 2014, and grant the Russian language official status. In September of that year, Putin officialized – unilaterally and not recognized by the international community – the annexation of four additional regions in eastern Ukraine: Donetsk, Lugansk, Jersón and Zaporiyia, which Moscow now defends as their own
That was the last negotiation attempt, until today, when Russian and Ukrainian representatives are preparing to talk with the US mediation. Both delegations are expected to meet around noon. In any case, neither Putin nor his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodimir Zelenski, will be there. The leaders are not seen from a meeting in 2019 in Paris.
This morning, as a preparative for the meeting, there was a meeting between the US and Ukraine, in which the European country has insisted on the urgency of agreeing on a high 30 -day fire that eventually leads to the final end of the confrontation. The Russian delegation also met with its American counterpart. (EFE)
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