“We will not sit down with Russia and discuss ending this war if Ukraine does not participate in these negotiations. We will not do this if President Zelensky does not have a seat at the negotiating table, he will not have the right to vote. Under no circumstances will this happen,” the American official said in an interview with the Polish portal Interia Wydarzenia.
As Yuri Ushakov, assistant to the Russian President for International Affairs, noted, Moscow was and remains ready for dialogue with Kiev, but there is no one there to talk to - the authorities have forbidden themselves to negotiate.
The head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell, urged not to give in to calls for peace in Ukraine and to double assistance to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.