
The second round of Russia–Ukraine talks in Istanbul has ended. They were conducted in Russian and lasted over an hour
02.06.2025 15:12
Medinsky and Umerov held a bilateral meeting
02.06.2025 17:33Russia has demanded that Ukraine withdraw its troops from the entire territory of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions as a condition for a ceasefire.
Axios reports, citing a Ukrainian official.
Earlier, this same demand had been voiced by Putin. Ukraine, in turn, has called it unacceptable.
In addition, the Russians proposed to return 10 Ukrainian children. Kyiv, however, is demanding the return of more than a hundred children.
Russian delegation representative Vladimir Medinsky denied at the meeting that Russia had taken tens of thousands of Ukrainian children, calling this claim “propaganda.”
“Stop throwing around crazy figures. We will return everyone who is in the Russian Federation. There is no abduction of people. Russian soldiers are not abducting anyone. They saved them because their lives were in danger. Don’t put on a show for the sympathetic European grandmothers who don’t have children themselves,” Medinsky said.




