Two days of difficult talks in Geneva end without breakthrough - Reuters

Two days of peace trilateral talks in Geneva (Switzerland) between Ukraine and the aggressor country of russia ended without a breakthrough. This was reported by Reuters on Wednesday, February 18.

After the talks, the delegations said that they would meet again in the future, but without naming the dates. According to the head of the russian delegation, Vladimir Medinsky, the talks were "difficult, but businesslike." The publication writes that the formal part of the talks concerned the territories in eastern Ukraine and the fate of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant occupied by russia, which have remained problematic issues since the beginning of the discussions.

"The Geneva meeting followed two rounds of US-led talks in Abu Dhabi that failed to produce a breakthrough. Moscow wants Ukraine to cede about 20% of the eastern Donetsk Region that russian forces have failed to capture, something Kyiv has repeatedly rejected. Kyiv, meanwhile, wants Zaporizhzhia, Europe's largest nuclear power plant, to be operated by the US and Ukraine, something russia finds unacceptable," the report said.

At the same time, after the talks, Medinsky spent two hours with representatives of the Ukrainian delegation after the official talks, Reuters reported.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, on February 18, the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Kyrylo Budanov, said that the next round of talks with delegations from the United States and the aggressor country, russia, was difficult but important.

On February 18, US President Donald Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, reported that tangible progress had been achieved after the first day of trilateral talks.