The Kremlin on Wednesday denied that Ukraine had a peace plan yet, accusing Kyiv of not taking into account what it called today's realities.

The Kremlin confirmed its rejection of any peace plan with Ukraine that does not recognize the accession of the "four new regions" to Russia, referring to the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson that Moscow announced its annexation months ago after holding a referendum whose results were rejected by Kyiv and its Western allies.

In turn, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced Moscow's readiness to discuss security issues in Ukraine and other major strategic issues.

In his statements from Moscow, Lavrov said that it is not possible to communicate with US President Joe Biden's administration unless Washington realizes "the negativity of its current behavior," as he put it.

He added that there are no alternatives to build relations of mutual respect with Russia in Ukraine, calling on Washington to abandon its current positions towards his country and the crisis.

For her part, a spokeswoman for the Secretary-General of the United Nations said that the international organization cannot hold a peace summit on Ukraine without the consent of all parties, after the statements of the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba, in which he stipulated that Russia face the war crimes court before holding direct talks with his country.

The war between Russia and Ukraine is entering its eleventh month, and there is still little hope of stopping it through diplomatic solutions, as indicated by the contradictory statements of officials of the two countries in their vision of stopping the fighting.

Since the start of the Russian war on Ukraine on February 24 (Russia calls it a special military operation), Moscow has set its goals to protect the population of the Donbass region, eliminate threats to Russia's security, disarm Ukraine and eliminate "Nazi" tendencies in it.

According to observers, Moscow insists on entering into negotiations and ending the war, recognizing the sovereignty and independence of the five regions that joined Russia in 2014 and 2022 as constituent parts of the Russian Federation, and thus Kyiv's recognition of the new borders emerging as a result between Russia and Ukraine.

At the same time, Ukraine, and behind it the United States, insists on the withdrawal of the Russians from the "occupied territories" that they seized after the attack last February, which continues to this day.