“Ukraine seemed to put forward a proposal two months ago on how to resolve this issue.
We have taken these proposals as a basis.
So a day later (after negotiations in Istanbul. -
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) the West forbade the Ukrainians to continue this process, ”Lavrov said, quoted by TASS.
According to him, at the moment the West does not allow Ukraine to negotiate.
Earlier, the Kremlin said that Moscow had clearly voiced its demands for resolving the Ukrainian conflict, they are well known to Kyiv, but the Ukrainian authorities are “freezing” the negotiations.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a telephone conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, said that the Russian side was open to resuming dialogue with Ukraine.