{"id":4708,"date":"2026-02-13T13:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/4708\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T13:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:28:07","slug":"ukraine-and-russia-gear-up-for-critical-talks-in-geneva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/4708\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine and Russia Gear Up for Critical Talks in Geneva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine is setting its sights on meaningful dialogues with Russia, supported by the U.S., during upcoming talks in Geneva scheduled for February 17-18. The head of Kyiv&#8217;s delegation underscored the importance of these negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Rustem Umerov, announcing via the Telegram app, confirmed that the Ukrainian delegation retains its original composition, ensuring that military, political, and security factors are carefully considered.<\/p>\n<p>In an announcement on Friday, Moscow stated that Vladimir Medinsky would lead the Russian side, replacing Igor Kostyukov, the previous head of military intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>(With inputs from agencies.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Ukraine is setting its sights on meaningful dialogues with Russia, supported by the U.S., during upcoming talks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[4074,65,4071,4075,4070,136,4072,2278,135,4073],"class_list":["post-4708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-delegation","tag-geneva","tag-kyiv","tag-military","tag-negotiations","tag-russia","tag-rustem-umerov","tag-u-s","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-medinsky"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}