Russia said on Monday that “It is not the time” to negotiate with Ukraine in view of its offensive in the Russian border region of Kursk, but insisted that Moscow’s conditions for resolving the conflict “have not been cancelled.”
“No, (the conditions) are not cancelled, but right now it would be inappropriate to initiate a negotiation process“Kremlin adviser Yuri Ushakov told the Telegram channel Shot.
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He insisted that in the current stage of Ukraine’s incursion into KurskRussia is not going to talk to the authorities of that country.
Ushakov thus referred to the conditions of Russian President Vladimir Putin for ending the war in Ukraine, which involve the withdrawal of kyiv’s forces from four regions annexed by Moscow in September 2022.
These conditions, expressed last June, also include Ukraine’s neutral status and its renunciation of plans to join NATO.
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This August, commenting on the Ukrainian offensive in Kursk, which is now two weeks old, Putin acknowledged that one of his goals is to improve the country’s position in any possible negotiations with Moscow, But he said that Russia now saw “nothing to talk about” with kyiv.
