Berlin, March 14, (dpa/GNA) – Negotiations between Ukraine and Russia on an end to the fighting, have been put on hold until Tuesday, according to Kiev.
Ukrainian presidential advisor, Mykhailo Podolyak, described the top-level delegations as taking a pause to sort out technicalities, but discussions among working groups were still underway.
“Negotiations are ongoing,” he tweeted.
The two sides had met by video link on Monday. Before that, the delegations had met three times in person in Belarus. There has been no breakthrough so far, though the parties had expressed cautious optimism over this week’s talks.
Ukraine is demanding an end to the war and the withdrawal of Russian troops. Moscow wants Kiev to recognize the annexed Black Sea peninsula of Crimea as Russian territory and the eastern Ukrainian separatist regions as independent states.
GNA