During a press conference at the election headquarters, he was asked who Russia would negotiate with after Vladimir Zelensky canceled the elections in Ukraine.

“This is a question awaiting its painstaking researcher.

We will think about it,” Putin said.

On March 16, Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, said that Zelensky and his clique are not interested in serious negotiations with Russia to resolve the Ukrainian crisis.

The publication Responsible Statecraft wrote that Western countries need to push Kyiv to launch the negotiation process with Moscow before a complete collapse occurs in Ukraine.