Four sticking points in Russia-Ukraine talks

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00:00What are the major sticking points expected to be during the talks tomorrow?

00:05You just mentioned there some of the things that Saudi has to help mediate.

00:11Well definitely what comes to my mind, there is only probably four sticking points.

00:15The first one is the Tertullian issue with Ukraine.

00:19Ukraine still believes that Russia needs to withdraw from some of the geographical area

00:26that was conquered by the Russians.

00:29And these are non-negotiable.

00:31And Russia is also at the same point.

00:33So this is also, Saudi Arabia needs to work and mediate these kind of things with the

00:37allied parties that are going to negotiate this peace between Ukraine and Russia.

00:42The second thing is the security guarantee.

00:44We all understand that the Minsk accord has been violated and Ukraine does not want this

00:52to happen.

00:53And they want some guarantees into the future.

00:56And the Russians, they want some guarantees for point number three.

01:00They don't want any NATO involvement in Ukraine.

01:03They want Ukraine to be basically withdrawn from all NATO's agreement and there is no

01:08future probably application that's going to be submitted.

01:12And this has to be guaranteed to the Russians in order to basically move forward with the

01:19peace plan.

01:20And the last point probably is the economy and or probably the relief, the sanction and

01:26the relief for the Russians.