According to him, this explains the changes in the composition of the Kremlin delegation, including the return return of Medinsky as head of the delegation.
“This time we mean to discuss a wider range of issues, including the main issues that relate to territories and everything else that are related to the demands that we have. The presence of the chief negotiator, that is, Medinsky, is already necessary here,” Peskov added.
Peskov emphasized that it was Putin’s assistant who always “remained the head of the negotiators’ delegation” of the Russian Federation. Medinsky was not present at the consultations in Abu Dhabi, allegedly “because they discussed security issues, issues that directly concerned the military,” so the group was headed by the head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Igor Kostyukov.
The Kremlin speaker added that the Russian group in Geneva will be joined by Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin and “other” officials.
Context
On January 23 in Abu Dhabi, at negotiations between the United States, Ukraine and Russia, the parties did not reach a compromise on the territorial issue, Reuters wrote.
In an interview published on February 4, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said that the Russian Federation has not won a single victory in the war against Ukraine and wants the Ukrainian Armed Forces to withdraw from Donbass. “To capture our east, they More than 800 thousand corpses will be needed. Precisely the corpses of their soldiers. They will need at least two years,” the president said.
On February 5, Russian media reported that the Russian Federation sees it as part of a large agreement recognition of Donbass as Russian by all countries.
On February 7, Zelensky said that during trilateral Ukrainian-American-Russian negotiations in Abu Dhabi Ukraine once again confirmed its position on the Donbass issue, although the American side again raised the issue of a free economic zone in the Donetsk region.
