It was the second round of negotiations of Moscow and Kiev, in which Türkiye is the mediator. The head of the office of the President of Ukraine Andrij Jermak announced that the Ukrainian side gave the Russian side a list with the names of Ukrainian children who were abducted to Russia, and Kiev expects them to return home.
– Today, during negotiations in Istanbul, the Ukrainian side officially handed over the Russian list a list of Ukrainian children who must be returned – wrote Jermak on a telegram.
– These are hundreds of children who Russia illegally deported, forcibly resettled or detained in temporarily occupied territories. In March, at a meeting in Dżudda (in Saudi Arabia), we confirmed our readiness to a 30-day suspension of weapons with a humanitarian element-he reminded.
He noted that the return of Ukrainian children is an integral part of the agreement on a fair and lasting peace. – We are waiting for an answer. The ball is on the side of Russia. Words are not important, but deeds – said Jermak.
Vladimir Putimir, Vladimir Miedinski, representing Russia in Turkey, announced that the names of 339 children have appeared on the list prepared by Ukraine. He emphasized that during the last exchange from Russia to Ukraine, 101 children were to return to Ukraine to Russia – 20 children.
Peace negotiations. Subsequent arrangements and proposals of truce conditions
In turn, the head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense Rust Umerov informed that the negotiators came to an agreement on the exchange of the bodies of soldiers. Ukraine and Russia will pass each other for 6,000 bodies of the fallen.
Before the meeting in Istanbul, the authorities in Kiev reported that they proposed that the road to a durable and just peace would begin with a 30-day suspension of weapons, exchange of all prisoners of war, held by each of the parties to the war lasting since 2014, as well as the return of children, abducted from the areas currently occupied by Russia. Ukraine also demands that the President Volodymyr Zełenski and the Russian leader Vladimir Putin, President Putin, a direct meeting.
