Ukraine's President: We will insist on continuing negotiations with Russia until a path to peace is found

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky stressed that his country will "insist" on continuing negotiations with Russia until a path leading to peace can be found.

“Today the third round of negotiations took place, I would like to be able to describe it as the third and final, but we are realistic. That is why we will continue to talk and we will insist on negotiations so that we can say to our people – this is the way,” Zelensky said, in a video speech posted on Monday evening via “Telegram.” through which we will reach peace.”

Zelensky accused Russian forces of failing to operate humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians from the Ukrainian capital.

In the video, Zelensky was shown wandering, he said, inside his presidential office in Kyiv, showing scenes of the streets outside the headquarters in the evening.

On Monday, the Belovezhskaya-Pucha region of Belarus hosted the third round of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine on ways to resolve tension between the two countries in light of the special military operation launched by the Russian government in Ukraine on February 24.

The head of the Russian delegation to negotiations with Ukraine, Vladimir Medinsky, said that Moscow's expectations from the third round of the negotiating process have not been fulfilled, but that the meetings will continue, expressing his hope that the work of humanitarian corridors will start as of Tuesday.

For his part, a member of the Kyiv delegation, Adviser to the Ukrainian Presidency, Mikhail Podolyak, said that "slight positive progress" was achieved in the third round of the negotiating process regarding the logistics of humanitarian corridors, but without significant results within the "pivotal political track."

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