The heads of the Ukrainian and Russian delegations, Rustem Umerov and Vladimir Medinsky, held a bilateral meeting before the teams' negotiations, UNN reports with reference to Russian media.
"Medinsky and Umerov held a bilateral meeting before the delegations' negotiations, it lasted 2.5 hours
The source of the publication also notes that "the meeting between Medinsky and Umerov before the negotiations determined the effective course of the delegations' meeting".
Let us remind you
Earlier, Umerov stated that only today during the delegations' negotiations in Istanbul, Russia handed over its "memorandum" on a ceasefire to Ukraine.