“Only if at some point Ukraine realizes that it can no longer count on weapons and assistance, and if the West promises to provide hundreds of billions of dollars for the restoration of its cities,” RIA Novosti quotes his answer to a question about the possibility of negotiations.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the United States had actually become a party to the conflict in Ukraine.
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, during a conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart Alexei Reznikov, promised to continue deliveries of military aid to Ukraine.