Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that a Ukrainian delegation would participate in talks with a Russian delegation on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border “without preconditions.”
Zelensky announced the talks on his official Telegram channel following a phone call with President Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus on Sunday.
Lukashenko has “taken responsibility for ensuring that all planes, helicopters and missile stationed on Belarusian territory remain on the ground during the Ukrainian delegation’s travel, talks and return,” the Ukrainian president said.
News of the talks came as Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that he had placed Russia’s nuclear deterrent forces on high alert in response to recent sanctions and “aggressive statements” from NATO countries.
Putin said in a televised statement that he had ordered the nuclear deterrent forces in a “special regime of combat duty.”
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