Slutsky called the conditions for continuing negotiations with Kyiv

Russia is ready to discuss the possibility of negotiations with Ukraine, subject to its surrender and denazification, said the chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, Leonid Slutsky.

“We are ready to consider the negotiation process if the Ukrainian side is ready for unconditional surrender, if the Ukrainian side is ready for a qualitative reduction in its armed forces, complete, absolute and unconditional denazification, liberation of the territory of Ukraine from Nazism,” Slutsky said in a video in his Telegram channel.

The politician said that no other negotiating positions of Kyiv after the “murder [политолога и журналиста] Dasha Dugina, ordered by the Kyiv regime, of course, cannot be.”

Journalist Daria Dugin, daughter of a public figure and ideologist of “Eurasianism” Alexander Dugin, perished on the evening of 20 August. Her father’s SUV Toyota The Land Cruiser Prado, in which the journalist was returning from the Tradition festival, exploded and caught fire at full speed at about 21:00 near the village of Bolshie Vyazemy, Odintsovo District.

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed condolences to the family of the deceased, calling the crime committed vile and cruel. Later, he signed a decree awarding Dugina the Order of Courage posthumously.

On August 22, the Russian FSB announced that the murder had been solved, saying that the Ukrainian special services were behind it. In particular, the FSB clarifies, a citizen of Ukraine Vovk Natalia Pavlovna, born in 1979, was involved in the murder. After the murder, Vovk left with her daughter through the Pskov region to Estonia.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stressed that “there can be no mercy” for those responsible for the death of Dugina. He expressed hope that the FSB would quickly complete the investigation of the crime.

The Ukrainian authorities deny their involvement in the journalist’s murder. Earlier, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that Kyiv is not responsible for the death of Dugina.