Russia says interested in reaching an agreement with Ukraine at talks

Russian and Ukrainian delegations will hold a meeting on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border

Russia is interested in coming to an agreement that is in the interests of both sides at talks with Ukraine, Assistant to Russian President Vladimir Medinsky said on Monday, as officials prepare to meet near the border.

Russian and Ukrainian delegations will hold a meeting on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border. The delegation includes Davyd Arakhamia, chairman of the Servant of the People faction, Oleksii Reznikov, Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Mikhail Podolyak, Mikhail Podolyak, an adviser to the chief of the Ukrainian presidential administration, Andrei Kostin, First Deputy Head of the Ukrainian Delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group, Rustam Umerov, Member of the Verkhovna Rada, and Mykola Tochytskyi, Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine.