MOSCOW, March 28, 2022 (BSS/TASS) - Another round of offline talks between
Russian and Ukrainian delegations will be held on March 29-30, Russian
presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, who leads the Russian delegation to the
talks, said on Sunday.

   "Another round of talks with Ukraine in the videoconference format was
held today. As a result, a decision was made to meet offline on March 29-30,"
he wrote on his Telegram channel.

   The first round of Russian-Ukrainian talks was held in Belarus' Gomel
region on February 28. The talks lasted for five hours. The second round of
talks was held on March 3 in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, in Belarus. The
delegations met for the third round of talks on March 7, in the Brest region,
also in Belarus. More rounds were held in the online format.

   On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special
military operation in response to a request for help by the heads of the
Donbass republics. He stressed that Moscow had no plans of occupying
Ukrainian territories, but aimed to demilitarize and denazify the country,
and to defeat nationalist armed units, which are directly responsible for
genocide in Donbass.