“We do not know how events will develop.

Russia today is committed, I know for sure, to the negotiation process," BelTA quotes him.

According to him, the Americans influence the negotiation process.

“The Americans said: no, there will be no negotiations.

And the British rule there, the Americans through the Poles in many respects.”

Earlier, Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev said that Russia was interested in reaching political and diplomatic agreements on Ukraine as soon as possible, but Kyiv froze the negotiations.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced Ukraine's unwillingness to resume negotiations with Russia.