The Kremlin has not yet received any signal from European countries to express the interest in starting negotiations in the end of the war in Ukraine. TASR informs this based on the DPA report.
“There were no signals yet,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said by TASS. According to DPA, Peskov referred mainly to the statements of Finnish President Alexander Stubba, who proposed this week that one or two European states to negotiate with Moscow on behalf of the European Allies of Ukraine. In particular, France or Britain was in mind.
London and Paris, according to AP they try to stand at the forefront of the international initiative referred to as the “coalition of willing” In order to create forces that will supervise the future ceasefire in Ukraine. Foreign Ministers of both states criticized Russia on Friday, which they believe delayed the negotiations on the ceasefire.
DPA recalls that Russia and the United States have so far been circumvented by European countries in interviews on the end of the war in Ukraine. On special negotiations in Saudi Arabia, the US and the Russian and Ukrainian delegation have agreed to suspend attacks on energy infrastructure and cease to be in the Black Sea.