On the 25th (local time), President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated, "I hope that three-way peace talks with the United States and Russia will be held in March."
According to major foreign media, President Zelenskyy made this remark during an online Q&A session with reporters on the same day. He said that before the fourth round of three-way talks, the Ukrainian delegation is scheduled to meet with the U.S. delegation on the 27th to discuss postwar reconstruction issues.
The two sides have been continuing the three-way negotiations with U.S. mediation, but there is still no sign of a breakthrough. The third round of peace talks, held in Geneva, Switzerland, on the 17th and 18th, also failed to produce any tangible results.
In particular, the standoff over ownership of the Donbas region (Donetsk and Luhansk) has remained at an impasse for more than a year. Russia has been continuously demanding that Ukraine cede the eastern Donbas, but Ukraine is resisting, saying that territorial issues are a red line on which it cannot compromise.
The war has dragged on for more than four years, yet Russia’s attacks on front and rear areas and Ukraine’s counterattacks continue. According to local authorities in Russia, a factory in western Russia was hit by a Ukrainian drone strike the previous day, killing four people. The Russian military announced that on this day it had captured the Hrafske area in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine’s second-largest city.
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