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| Kremlin says that Kyiv is holding civilians as hostages |
| 2025-07-25 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The Ukrainian side is holding civilians as hostages. This was stated on July 24 by the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov. “The proposals from the Russian side [to Kiev] are specific, constructive, and necessary for the citizens of both countries: both the continuation of the exchange and the return of civilians who are effectively being held hostage,” he said during a briefing. Peskov also gave a positive assessment to the discussion of a set of humanitarian topics during the third round of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul, as well as the Russian side’s proposal to create three groups to work online. As reported by the Regnum news agency, on the evening of July 23, Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, head of the Russian delegation at the talks in Istanbul, said that Kiev must clarify the status of civilians from the Kursk region who are being forcibly detained in Ukraine. According to him, the Russian side is ready to exchange Ukrainian fighters and other categories of people for Kursk residents who are being detained in Ukraine. The third round of talks between Russia and Ukraine took place on the evening of July 23 at the Ciragan Palace in Istanbul and lasted for about 40 minutes. The Ukrainian delegation was headed by the Secretary of the National Security Council Rustem Umerov. At the meeting, Moscow proposed that Kiev representatives consider the issue of declaring short ceasefires on the combat contact line to collect the wounded and dead. Following the negotiations between the delegations, Medinsky said that Russia was counting on a fourth round of negotiations. He added that the positions of the parties to the conflict on the memorandums were quite far apart. |
| Posted by:badanov |
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| Posted by: trailing wife 2025-07-25 22:00 |
| #1 https://youtu.be/3G5wugdqjXE?si=0jfjsmwlc-LZS2H2 |
| Posted by: Два кольори 2025-07-25 20:57 |