Russia and Ukraine have a secret communication channel. “This is one of the strangest threads”
The first contact took place in March 2022, when Brigadier General Dmytro USOW, deputy head of the Ukrainian military intelligence (Hur), came into possession of a cell phone, which was found at the body of the Russian officer killed during the fights near Kiev.
At that time, General USOW lost two of his soldiers. Using the found phone, he ranged to the number belonging to the commander of the Russian unit. He gave him information about the death of the officer and sent a photo of the body, proposing the exchange of corpses.
“What happened later has evolved into one of the strangest side threads of the greatest war in Europe since the 1940s: a series of exchanges, which began with several corpses, and then slowly turned into a regular exchange of hundreds of prisoners of prisoners, many of whom were extremely exhausted” – writes “WSJ”.
European leaders and head of NATO will join the meeting Zelanski -Trump
On Monday, at the invitation of Trump, Zelanski will visit Washington. Talks of US and Ukraine leaders are to concern initiatives for the end of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
This will be Zelanski's first visit to Washington since his meeting with Trump in the White House at the end of February. A quarrel, which occurred at the time in the oval office, initiated a crisis of several weeks in Ukraine-Us relations.
On Sunday, several European leaders have announced that he would join Monday's talks. So far, their participation in negotiations in the White House was confirmed by: Chairwoman of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron, Finland President Alexander Stubb, Secretary General of NATO Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of Italy Giorgia Meloni and Prime Minister of the Great Britain Keir Starmer.
