There is little hope for negotiations to end the war but Russia and Ukraine have managed to engage on exchanging POWs and other issues, at times through intermediaries.
The countries, now sworn enemies fighting a grinding war, are managing to negotiate on a few core humanitarian issues: exchanging prisoners of war and dead soldiers’ bodies; the passage of ships from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports; and, most recently, the return of Ukrainian children from Russia.In some cases, Moscow and Kyiv use intermediaries, including Turkey, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, the Vatican, and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Intermediaries are a fallback. “If we can do it ourselves, then we will resolve it,” Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said. Experts from the International Committee of the Red Cross check the documentation, and members of the Russian and Ukrainian security services observe, Kotenko said.
Turkey has become the main place for the two sides to advance negotiations when they stall. It was chosen as a neutral territory after the brief round of peace talks in Belarus in March 2022 were literally poisoned — with several members of the Ukrainian delegation falling mysteriously ill.
Negotiations “can’t be done in such a way that one side has gotten more or less,” Usov said. “Each side has to be able to prove they’ve won in some way.”
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