Peskov said there were no prerequisites for negotiations between Putin and Zelensky
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At present, there are no prerequisites for negotiations between the presidents of Russia and Ukraine, Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Zelensky, said the press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov.
“We do not currently see any negotiation prospects and continue to state the absence of any prerequisites for such negotiations,” the Kremlin spokesman said.
In a previously published interview with Zelensky on CNN, the Ukrainian president said he was not ready to negotiate with Russia, since Moscow, in his opinion, would take advantage of the pause to build up forces and further offensive. Prior to this, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov recalled Moscow’s readiness to start negotiations with Kyiv on what is happening in Ukraine. He stressed that without early negotiations, the process of concluding a treaty would become increasingly difficult.
In response to the statement of the Ukrainian leader, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev named the conditions that Russia sets now, “a warm-up for the requirements of the future.” “Someone Zelensky said that he would not engage in dialogue with those who put forward ultimatums. The current “ultimatums” are a children’s warm-up for the demands of the future. And he knows them: the total capitulation of the Kyiv regime on Russia’s terms,” he concluded.
On August 26, the head of Zelensky’s office, Mikhail Podolyak, said that Kyiv was opposed to negotiations, since, according to him, dialogue in the current situation would be a “death sentence” for Ukraine.
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