“The United States is a member of the OSCE, they have the right to enter this format.
Rather, the question is about this: will an agreement in principle of this nature be reached.
Now, between the political adviser to President Zelensky, Andriy Yermak (who is also the head of the office), there are intensive consultations with Victoria Nuland, who has been appointed in the United States as the chief official for Ukraine and the settlement of the conflict with the Russian Federation, "he said on the Dom TV channel.
According to him, how these consultations will end will be clear after the visit of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the United States and a meeting with President Joe Biden.
Earlier, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said that one of the key topics of future negotiations between Biden and Zelensky will be Washington's participation in resolving the situation in Donbass.
The Ukrainian president also said that he intends to ask the United States for an increase in military aid and defense supplies.
As noted in the Kremlin, the Ukrainian authorities do not want to fulfill the Minsk agreements, and therefore are consistently trying to leave them or replace them with something.
They recalled that the Russian Federation is not a party to the conflict in the south-east of Ukraine.
According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Zelensky's team is "wriggling as best it can", trying to turn the Minsk agreements "upside down."
Russian leader Vladimir Putin, commenting on proposals to meet with his Ukrainian counterpart, stressed that Zelensky had given his country under full external control: key issues of its life are being resolved in Washington, Berlin and Paris.