“Zelensky was elected as president, who could have a direct dialogue with Moscow, who could talk with the president of Russia and with whom the president of Russia would speak, who could appoint such a minister of foreign affairs with whom Moscow would like to speak. Priesto is not that figure (with all due respect to this person), he is too pronatist and worked very closely with NATO. Moscow will not speak with him, ”German said on the 112 Ukraine television channel.
She also expressed the opinion that the Zelensky team does not have a clear strategy and supporters of the president do not know "where to lead the country."
Earlier, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu called the Ukrainian people fraternal and expressed confidence that Moscow and Kiev would "live in peace and good neighborliness."
In mid-September, Prime Minister of Ukraine Aleksey Goncharuk during the Yalta European Strategy (YES) forum announced that Kiev intends to build pragmatic relations with Moscow and demonstrate "its own success." At the same time, he emphasized that the authorities' approach to assessing the actions of Russia has not changed “since the Maidan.
Foreign Minister of Ukraine Vadim Pristayko noted the "thaw" in relations between Moscow and Kiev.
Viktor Vodolatsky, deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots, stressed in an interview with RT that the "warming" of relations between the two countries is still "one-sided" in nature due to the continuation of Kiev’s broadcast of anti-Russian rhetoric.