He noted that during the negotiations in Istanbul, an agreement was actually reached and it only remained to initial it.
According to Putin, after, in order to create conditions, Russian troops withdrew from the center of Ukraine, from Kyiv, the Ukrainian side refused to implement the agreement.
The President of Russia emphasized that the end result does not depend on mediators, but on the willingness of the contracting parties to fulfill their obligations.
“We see today that the Kyiv authorities have no such desire,” the head of state said.
Earlier, an aide to the Russian president, Yuri Ushakov, said that if negotiations were resumed between Moscow and Kyiv, the conditions would be different.
He also noted that Russia does not see the interest of Ukraine and its Western partners in the resumption of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations.