MOSCOW/KYIV
Talks between Moscow and Kyiv to seek a way to end the bloody conflict triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will resume on Monday, Ukrainian negotiator David Arakhamia said Saturday.
“The third round of negotiations will take place on Monday,” Arakhamia, the parliamentary leader of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s party and an envoy to the talks, said on his Facebook page.
On the other hand, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday Up to 14,000 civilians in the Donetsk and Lugansk republics have been killed since 2014, and the ‘so called’ West was silent over it.
“What I am going to say may sound harsh. Yet the situation forces me to say aloud what has just occurred to me. As you may have heard, stray dogs these days begin to attack people in various regions. Some get injured. There have even been lethal cases,” Putin said.
At as certain point, people “begin to poison and shoot these animals.” He made a reservation that even the stray dogs were a separate problem and “the local authorities are obliged to address it.”
“Now listen to this: the Donbass people are NOT stray dogs! Yet, 13,000-14,000 of them have been killed there over years. More than 500 children have been killed or crippled,” Putin said.
