“Russia is our greatest neighbor and we need to understand how to coexist with this large country in the future ... Our intentions are to be pragmatic. We think that the best answer to any aggressor is our own success, we need to demonstrate that we are successful, ”Ukrainian News agency quoted Goncharuk as saying.
At the same time, he emphasized that the approach of the authorities to assessing the actions of Russia has not changed “since the Maidan”.
Earlier, Ukrainian Foreign Minister 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.