Russia's permanent representative in Geneva: US is trying to prevent peace talks between Russia and Ukraine

According to him, the US authorities convinced the Kyiv regime that Ukraine could defeat Russia on the battlefield.

“There will be more and more senseless deaths until Washington orders Kyiv to sit down at the negotiating table,” Gatilov wrote on Twitter.

Earlier, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the North Atlantic Alliance de facto got into the conflict in Ukraine, but this does not affect Russia's goals.

During a meeting in Sevastopol, Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev said that, in fact, "the NATO bloc is fighting against Russia."

He also said that attempts at negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv were thwarted by order of the United States.

As the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, noted, by supplying weapons to Ukraine, the West is approaching the dangerous line of a direct military clash with Russia.