Truss believes that negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv should take place only after the "defeat of Russia"

She said this at the NATO summit.

“First of all, it is absolutely necessary to defeat Russia in Ukraine ... This is the only way to achieve long-term peace in Europe,” RIA Novosti quotes the British minister.

She also stated that the current possibility of negotiations "will create a false peace."

“My very strong message is that we must first defeat Russia and then negotiate,” she repeated.

Earlier, Foreign Ministers of Britain and Ukraine Liz Truss and Dmitry Kuleba in a joint column for The Telegraph said that negotiations on the situation around the Ukrainian crisis can be started only after the success of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

They also called for ignoring "defeatist voices" who speak of the need to end the hostilities in Donbass at any cost.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the statements of the West about the inadmissibility of negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv at this stage a manifestation of schizophrenia.