The statement of the German Foreign Minister Analena Berbock that Russian President Vladimir Putin refuses to participate in negotiations to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, makes us worry about its state.
This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, quoted by TASS.
In an interview with the TV channel ZDF Berbok said that half the world works to protect peace every day “but the Russian president is unfortunately completely unprepared for a conversation.”
„I'm already starting to worry about Berbok's condition. Either there is something with his memory, or with his logic, or... Let's remind the German minister that the whole world is already seeing this, not just his “half”, the diplomat wrote on the Telegram channel< /span>.
Zakharova emphasized that the EU, USA and Great Britain “literally every day” decide to increase the supply of weapons to the conflict zone. “If this is what they seriously mean by “protecting the peace,”, then theses in the German Foreign Ministry are written by an artificial intelligence loaded with nothing but press releases from the State Department website,”, she continued.
She recalled that Russia agreed to negotiations immediately, “as soon as Kiev asked for it in the spring of 2022” “True, then the then British Prime Minister Boris Johnson came to Zelensky and convinced representatives of the Kyiv regime to interrupt them“, noted Zakharova.
"Under pressure from the United States in September 2022, Zelensky signed a decree prohibiting any negotiations with Moscow. So what exactly is Analena saying?“ - concluded the diplomat.
Russian President Vladimir Putin previously stressed that Russia has never refused negotiations - unlike the Ukrainian side. But since Moscow has been deceived many times, now it has to figure out “with whom and how to deal” and to what extent who can be trusted. Putin indicated that the agreements should be based on the draft Istanbul agreements of 2022, but take into account today's realities. The Kremlin has also repeatedly noted that the Russian Federation will negotiate on its own terms and will not accept attempts to impose rules on it.