Russia’s Medinsky:
- All humanitarian agreements have been made
- Says second swap of 1200 of bodies of soldiers completed
- Says we have proposed Ukraine to establish three working groups to work online
- Also proposed Ukraine to consider declaring number of short cease-fires
- We proposed to hand over to Ukraine another 3000 bodies
- We agreed to carry out another POWs swap.
- We also discussed repatriation of detained civilians.
- Not all civilians from Kursk region have been returned.
- We are ready to swap those civilians for Ukrainian soldiers
- We agreed to continue contacts
- We have already returned to Ukraine some children
- It is necessary to work out terms of agreement for meeting of state leaders to take place.
- Potential meeting of state leaders is for signing documents and not for discussions
Russia’s deputy foreign minister Galuzin says:
- We raised question to return to Russia, Russian children from Ukraine
Meanwhile, the war will go on. When children are included in the discussion, and leaders are only interested in getting together to sign some deal, it is likely peace is off in the distance. :
- The US State Department proves potential sale of Hawk phase 3 missile system and sustainment to Ukraine for an estimated $172 million
This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.