NEWS.am digest: Russia, Ukraine FMs meet in Antalya, Europe won’t ban Russian oil

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TALKS IN UKRAINE

Russian FM Sergey Lavrov and Ukrainian FM Dmitry Kuleba held 1,5 hour talks on Thursday in Antalya, Turkey.

Negotiations mediated by Ankara are the first high-level contacts between the two sides since the escalations.

Before this meeting, officials from Kyiv and Moscow had held several rounds of discussions in Belarus, but the meeting in the southern city of Antalya marked the first time Russia sent a minister for discussions on the crisis.

After the meeting, Ukraine’s FM said he discussed a 24-hour ceasefire with his Russian counterpart but no progress was made since, as he put it, ‘Moscow’s representative defended the invasion’ and said it was going as planned.

Dmytry Kuleba added he secured ‘no promise from Russia’s Sergey Lavrov’ to halt firing so that aid could reach civilians, including the main humanitarian priority – evacuating hundreds of thousands of people trapped in the besieged port city of Mariupol.

Lavrov, meanwhile, said Russia wants to continue talks with Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin would not refuse a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss “specific” issues.

Russian FM said Russia would not have started the conflict in Ukraine if the West had not rejected “our proposal on security guarantees“.

“Until the end, we wanted to resolve the situation in Ukraine through diplomatic means,” he said.

The Russian FM also said he did not believe the standoff with the West over Ukraine would lead to nuclear war.

Meanwhile, Russia had never used its oil and gas as weapons and it will always have markets for its energy exports, added Lavrov.

Turkish FM Mevlut Cavusoglu said the aim of the meeting was to pave the way for a meeting between the Russian and Ukrainian presidents, which would be facilitated by Turkey’s president.

RUSSIAN GAS

YOUTUBE IN RUSSIA

Russia faces deepening isolation and economic turmoil as it continues to be hit with sanctions from Western markets.

Today YouTube has completely suspended all monetization features for Russian users, including Premium subscription and Music Premium. The video hosting announced this in letters sent to Russian users.

Earlier, YouTube banned advertising for Russian users, and also blocked the channels of the Russian state TV channel RT and the host of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Vladimir Solovyov, Solovyov Live.

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