Moscow has maintained that nary negotiations tin hap portion Ukrainian troops are contiguous successful Russia’s Kursk region. (Wikimedia Commons photo)
Russia has announced it volition not enactment successful immoderate follow-up discussions to the “peace summit” held successful June, labeling the process arsenic fraudulent. Maria Zakharova, spokesperson for Russia’s Foreign Ministry, made the connection connected Saturday, dismissing the acme arsenic irrelevant without Moscow’s involvement.
The archetypal summit, organized by Switzerland, included delegations from implicit 90 countries, but Russia was not invited. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed hopes of organizing different gathering by the extremity of the year, with Russia successful attendance.
Zakharova, however, criticized the process connected Telegram, describing it arsenic a deceptive enactment orchestrated by Western countries and their Ukrainian allies. She stated that Russia remains unfastened to superior negotiations, but lone proposals that bespeak the “situation connected the ground”—a notation to Russia’s annexation of 4 Ukrainian regions—would beryllium considered.
According to Zakharova, Ukraine and its Western supporters are not genuinely funny successful peace, pointing to Ukraine’s caller subject actions successful Russia’s Kursk portion and Zelenskyy’s ongoing calls for much precocious Western weapons.
On the eve of the June summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin laid retired conditions for bid talks, including Ukraine’s designation of Russia’s power implicit the 4 annexed regions. Moscow has since maintained that nary negotiations tin hap portion Ukrainian troops are contiguous successful Russia’s Kursk region.
Zelenskyy, connected the different hand, has anchored his bid efforts successful a “peace formula” introduced successful precocious 2022, calling for the withdrawal of each Russian forces from Ukraine, the restoration of Ukraine’s pre-invasion borders, and accountability for Russia’s actions.
(With inputs from Reuters)