“We are ready to provide platforms for all parties to the conflict if they are ready for direct dialogue to find a peaceful solution to the Ukrainian crisis,” TASS quoted him as saying.

On October 30, the head of the World Union of Old Believers, Leonid Sevastyanov, said that Pope Francis had proposed holding talks between Russia and the West on a Ukrainian settlement in the Vatican.

In addition, on October 5, Austria offered to hold talks that would help resolve the conflict in Ukraine, on its territory.