KIEV, March 3. /TASS/. The Ukrainian side stated that talks with Russia will be held yet not in Belovezhskaya Pushcha in Belarus but elsewhere, David Arakhamia of the Ukrainian delegation said on Wednesday.

"Information about the negotiations in [Belovezhskaya Pushcha] does not correspond to reality. Negotiations will really happen, but the place is different. All the details will be later," he wrote on Facebook.

The Russian delegation has already arrived in Belovezhskaya Pushcha where, as it was planned earlier, a second round of talks between both countries would happen. Vladimir Medinsky who heads the Russian delegation, reported upon the arrival that Russian representatives were expecting the Ukrainian delegation on March 3. According to him, the site for the talks was selected jointly. The Belarusian Foreign Ministry reported that the talks would be held in Belovezhskaya Pushcha.

In response to these statements, Adviser to the Ukrainian President's Chief of Staff Mikhail Podolyak, one of the members of the Ukrainian delegation, urged to wait until "the real beginning of the dialogue." "It is doubtful that without the presence of the other (Ukrainian) side at the negotiating table, negotiations can really take place. So just wait for the real beginning of the dialogue," he wrote on Twitter.

The makeup of the Russian delegation has not changed - in addition to Medinsky, it includes Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko, Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin, Chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on Foreign Affairs Leonid Slutsky, as well as Russian Ambassador to Belarus, Russia’s permanent representative at the Contact Group Boris Gryzlov.

The Russian-Ukrainian talks were held on Monday in the Gomel Region in Belarus, the meeting lasted five hours. The Russian delegation was led by Russian Presidential Aide Vladimir Medinsky. Earlier, he stated that the Russian delegation was ready to negotiate with the Ukrainian side for as long as it would be necessary to reach an agreement. Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei said that he hoped that the two delegations would meet for another round of talks at the Belarusian-Polish border in a couple of days.