Meanwhile, Russia refuses to confirm peaceful talks with Ukraine in the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV. offers a place to meet.
Russia has not yet agreed on any potential round of peace talks with Ukraine, which, according to media reports, could soon be held in the Vatican. Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Kremlin, said it, TASR writes according to AFP.
“There are still no concrete agreements on other meetings,” Peskov said.
Vatican as a possible location
Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin said last week that Pope Leo XIV. He is willing to provide the Vatican as a place for a direct meeting between Russia and Ukraine. He said last Friday, when the first direct Russian-Ukrainian talks took place in Istanbul, Turkey for more than three years of the war in Ukraine. The result of these negotiations was no ceasefire agreement.
The US Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, referring to its sources, informed that the new round of interviews between the two parties could take place in the Vatican in mid -June. Peskov immediately denied it. “There have been no agreements in this matter,” he said.
He also denied the words of Finnish President Alexander Stubb, who said on Wednesday that Kiev interviews with Moscow at the technical level could be held in the Vatican next week.
