Negotiations between Ukraine and Russia will begin at 12:00, writes the TV channel " Delegations to sit down at the negotiating table in Belarusian Gomel. Ukrainian delegation flies on a Polish helicopter.

The initiator of the negotiations is Ukraine, Russia agreed to hold negotiations without preconditions (Ukraine rejected the aggressor's demand that the Armed Forces of Ukraine should lay down their arms to start negotiations).

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky does not believe that negotiations with the Russians will be constructive. But he believes that they are important for Ukraine and the world as proof that Kyiv is ready to negotiate, while Moscow continues aggression against our country.

“I don’t really believe in the result of this meeting, but let them still try so that later not a single citizen of Ukraine has any doubts that I, as president, did not try to stop the war, when there was a chance, albeit a small one,” he said..

Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmitry Kuleba emphasized that it is not so much the fact of negotiations that is important as their content.

“There is nothing wrong with negotiations as such. And we will be glad if the result of these negotiations is peace and the end of the war. But, and I emphasize this again, we will not surrender, we will not capitulate, we will not give up a single centimeter of our territory. This is not the goal of our struggle,” Kuleba said..

The day before, Zelensky held talks with Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, who is preparing a landing force in Ukraine.

According to their results, Lukashenka took responsibility for the fact that during the travel, negotiations and return of the Ukrainian delegation, all planes, helicopters and missiles stationed on Belarusian territory will remain on the ground.

At the same time, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the strategic deterrence forces of the Russian army to be placed on " That is, all units that have strategic and tactical nuclear missile weapons as their main armament. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry considers Putin's order as an attempt to exert additional pressure on the eve of negotiations.