After about two weeks of peace negotiations in an online format, the delegations from Ukraine and Russia now want to meet again in person, reports news agency MIA.
A meeting is planned for Tuesday and Wednesday, Russian delegation leader Vladimir Medinsky wrote on Telegram on Sunday.
The Ukrainian negotiator Davyd Arakhamia also confirmed on Facebook that a face-to-face meeting was planned – but he said it would start on Monday and named Turkey as the host country.
There was initially no confirmation from the Turkish side. Shortly after the start of the Russian war of aggression on Ukraine on February 24, delegations from both countries began negotiations.
After three face-to-face meetings in the border region of Belarus, the talks were held in video links. Ukraine is demanding an end to the fighting as well as a withdrawal of Russian troops.
Moscow demands that Kiev renounce its hopes for NATO membership, recognize the separatist areas in the east of the country as independent states as well as Russian rule over the annexed Crimean peninsula.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov had already met in Turkey on March 10.
However, the talks in the city of Antalya did not lead to any significant progress.
