Russia ready to resume negotiations with Ukraine: deputy minister

According to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko, Russia is ready to begin a dialogue with Ukraine if Kyiv declares its willingness to do so. Rudenko made this statement today. “Our colleagues in Ukraine are the ones who decided to suspend the negotiating process rather than us doing so ourselves. As soon as they indicate that they are prepared to go back to the negotiation table, we will, of course, confirm that we are willing to do so as well “he was cited as saying by the Interfax agency as speaking to the Russian press. “the main thing is that there is something to speak about,” the senior Russian official was quoted as saying by the media. The Kremlin declared the day before that the discussions between Moscow and Kyiv are completely deadlocked at present owing to the “utter lack of will” of Ukraine’s side.

This statement was made. “The negotiations are not making much headway. In addition, it seems that the Ukrainian negotiators have absolutely no interest in carrying on with this process at all “Dmitry Peskov, the spokesperson for the Russian presidential administration, said at his regular telephone briefing. Something that may be attributed by the Russian side to the influence that the United States and the United Kingdom had throughout the negotiation.

Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to the Ukrainian Presidency, confirmed on Tuesday that negotiations with Russia are “on hold” due to Moscow’s reluctance to accept the conditions that existed before the beginning of the Russian military campaign in Ukraine have significantly shifted.

This is because Moscow is unwilling to acknowledge that the conditions that existed before the beginning of the Russian military campaign in Ukraine have changed substantially. After the fighting in Mariupol became more intense and photographs of Bucha became public, the parties were unable to make any progress in their negotiations. This happened about a month and a half ago. The delegations from both nations saw one another in person for the last time on March 29 in Istanbul, Turkey, to wrap up their face-to-face negotiations.