The Russian Foreign Ministry said that Kyiv interrupted the negotiation process at the behest of Western curators

He spoke about this in an interview with TASS.

Polischuk stressed that Russia has always been inclined to dialogue with Ukraine, and at the end of February it responded to the request of the Ukrainian authorities to start negotiations.

“He (Kyiv. -

) was ready to fix permanent neutrality, non-nuclear and non-bloc status, demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine in exchange for security guarantees,” the agency’s source said.

Polishchuk noted that Ukraine broke off negotiations when the acceptable outlines of the agreement began to line up.

“Obviously at the behest of Western curators who don’t need peace,” he said.

As Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said earlier, establishing "the worst peace" in Ukraine would be better than "continuing the war."

On September 30, the Russian leader called on the Ukrainian authorities to "immediately cease fire, all hostilities" and return to the negotiating table.

After that, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Kyiv is ready for negotiations with Moscow, but if there is another president in Russia.