Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized the planned June in Switzerland, a high-level international conference for peace in Ukraine, reported DPA, quoted by BTA.
Russia will not be invited to the conference, but at the same time it will become clear that nothing can be decided without Moscow, Putin said during a meeting with Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko.
"And since we are not going there, now people are saying that we refuse to negotiate," Putin said, comparing the forum in Switzerland to "a real panopticon," Putin added.
On Wednesday, the Russian embassy in Bern said that Russia had not been invited to the forum in Switzerland in June, but added that even if it had been invited, Russia would not have participated in the meeting.
According to Putin, Ukraine has backed itself into a corner by breaking off negotiations two years ago - shortly after the start of the war.
The other side believed that Russia could be defeated on the battlefield. But that turned out to be impossible, Putin suggested.
Moscow is ready to negotiate, but not according to schemes "which have nothing to do with reality,", the Russian president said.
Among the topics on the agenda of the conference in Switzerland is the peace formula proposed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Zelensky called for the withdrawal of Russian troops from all occupied regions of Ukraine. But Putin is pushing for a peace that preserves Russia's previous conquests, as well as turning Ukraine into a demilitarized, neutral country that renounces NATO membership.