The fourth round of Russian-Ukrainian talks on settling the situation in Ukraine will take place in the near future, Leonid Slutsky, a member of the Russian delegation and head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, said at a briefing on March 7 after the end of the third round of talks held in Belovezhskaya Pushcha in Belarus.

The MP noted that it is difficult to negotiate. xe2x80x9cTough partners, and we imagined it ,xe2x80x9d Slutsky said. According to him, the next round of negotiations will take place in the near future, but one cannot hope that the Ukrainian side will immediately take a position close to the Russian one and will impeccably implement it.

xe2x80x9cNegotiations will really quickly continue. Let’s not flatter ourselves with the illusion that the next step, through the step, will reach the final result. It will be quite hard and consistent work , xe2x80x9dSlutsky added. He stressed that the consultations would not be easy.

Slutsky also noted the importance of the issue of humanitarian corridors through which civilians could go.

xe2x80x9cThousands and thousands of people are waiting in Mariupol, in Volnovakha. They are waiting for the opportunity to save their lives, the lives of their children and parents. those people who shoot at them and do not allow them to pass through the humanitarian corridors. They are essentially fascists. These, in fact, are simply non-humans who hide behind people as a human shield, preventing them from passing through open humanitarian corridors , xe2x80x9dsaid the parliamentarian.

Slutsky added that at the last talks, the parties discussed the details of the use of humanitarian corridors in sufficient detail in specific areas. The deputy expressed hope that attempts to take people out would be made in the shortest possible time and would be successful.

Recall that since February 24, Russia has been conducting a special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine, whose authorities have carried out genocide of the inhabitants of Donbass for almost eight years. As Russian President Vladimir Putin stated, we are not talking about the occupation of the territory of Ukraine. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation emphasized that the strikes were carried out only on military targets.

Russian-Ukrainian negotiations to resolve the situation in Ukraine are taking place on the territory of Belarus. The first round of negotiations took place on February 28, and the second round on March 3.