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Negotiations between the delegations of Russia and Ukraine began on Monday in the Gomel region on the border of Belarus and Ukraine.
The Russian delegation is headed by Vladimir Medinsky, Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation. It includes Deputy heads of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Andrei Rudenko and Alexander Fomin, head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutsky.
The Ukrainian side is represented by Defense Minister Alexey Reznikov, adviser to the head of the presidential office Mikhail Podolyak, head of the faction of the ruling Servant of the People party David Arakhamia, First Deputy head of the Ukrainian delegation to the Contact Group on the Settlement in Donbass Andrey Kostin, deputy Rustem Umerov and Deputy Foreign Minister Nikolai Tochitsky.
