Foreign Ministry: Russia returns to negotiations with Ukraine with a “constructive approach of Kyiv”
Moscow will be ready to return to negotiations with Ukraine as soon as Kyiv shows a constructive approach and responds to Russia’s proposal, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko said.
“This is not our initiative to freeze the current problems and put everything on pause. We are ready to return as soon as Ukraine shows a constructive concept and consideration, in any case, the proposal submitted to it will be implemented,” Rudenko said (quote by RIA Novosti).
According to the diplomat, Moscow is guided only by the official verification of the Kyiv authorities. Thus, he commented on the statement of the adviser to the office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak. He stressed that Kyiv accepts any agreement with Moscow, “providing for the adoption of new territorial realities.”
Rudenko had previously said that Kyiv had indeed withdrawn from dealing with Moscow. The Ukrainian side also did not respond to Moscow’s proposal, which the Foreign Ministry handed over in mid-April. Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that the importance of the amicable agreement is not moving forward, because Kyiv does not want to continue them.
Negotiations between Russia and Ukraine a few days after the start of special operations. Since the end of February, the parties have been involved in several deals to settle the round. Country delegations are carried out on the territory of Belarus and online. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said earlier that an investigation into the conflict could only be possible with “the immediate end of hostilities by Russia and the withdrawal of troops.”