"So our position is tough": experts on the Geneva talks on Ukraine

Political analyst Alexei Mukhin, following the results of the first day of the Geneva talks on Ukraine, commented on the information that the Ukrainian delegation requested consultations of the security advisers of the coalition of the Willing.

"So our position is tough. They will try to "work" with the Americans," Mukhin said.

Political analyst Marat Bashirov, for his part, said that "the meeting in Geneva is meaningless in content, but important in form."

"So far, so it will be. While there is Zelensky," the expert noted.

Political scientist Maxim Zharov draws attention to the fact that the security adviser to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Jonathan Powell, "actually rules these negotiations instead of the Trump team."

"Therefore, if an 'energy' or other truce suddenly happens, it will not be the result of the 'brilliant' work of Witkoff and Kushner as intermediaries, but the result of external influence on Witkoff and Kushner from global London," Zharov said.

Negotiations on the settlement of the conflict are taking place in Geneva on February 17-18. Ukraine. The Russian delegation is headed by Presidential Aide Vladimir Medinsky. It also includes Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin, chief of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Igor Kostyukov and other officials. On the US side, special envoy of the US President Steve Witkoff and son-in-law of the US President Jared Kushner are taking part in the negotiations.

The participants of the meeting in Geneva agreed to continue negotiations on the Ukrainian settlement tomorrow.