“This is not our initiative to freeze the current negotiations and put everything on pause.

We will be ready to return as soon as Ukraine shows a constructive position and provides, at least, a reaction to the proposals submitted to it, ”RIA Novosti reports his words.

Earlier, the head of the Russian delegation, aide to the President of Russia Vladimir Medinsky, said in an interview with the Belarusian TV channel ONT that the initiative to freeze Russian-Ukrainian negotiations comes from Kyiv.