Russian presidential spokesman (Kremlin) Dmitry Peskov said today, Sunday, that Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's proposal to arrange talks between US Presidents Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin is unlikely to be supported in the West.
Peskov added, in an interview with Russia 1, that the West has not yet shown any response to peace initiatives regarding Ukraine.
Referring to Biden's upcoming visit to the Polish capital, Warsaw, starting Monday, the Kremlin spokesman said it showed Washington's lack of intention to hold talks.
Peskov said that Putin will pay special attention to issues related to the military operation in Ukraine in his speech to the Russian Federal Assembly next Tuesday.
The Belarusian president said in press statements reported by the official news agency that he invites the US president to visit his country, adding that he is ready to arrange a meeting for him with the Russian president in the capital, Minsk, noting that the aim of the meeting is to end the war in Ukraine.
Russia and the Western powers exchange accusations of refusing to sit at the negotiating table, while Ukraine says that any negotiations depend on Russia stopping the war it has been waging against it for nearly a year and withdrawing from the lands it seized.