Russia offered to resume negotiations, we refused, – Stefanishina

< p _ngcontent-sc137="" class="news-annotation">Russian officials have been approaching Ukraine in recent days with a proposal to resume negotiations. Kyiv refused.

This is due to the success of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the front. This was announced by Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olha Stefanyshina.

When Ukraine starts negotiations

Stefanyshina stressed that Ukraine will start negotiations only after it has achieved its military objectives. Kyiv now has more leverage than Moscow.

Politics has no doubt that the temporarily occupied Donbass and Crimea will return to Ukrainian control. She called on Europe to impose additional sanctions against Russia.

Russia wanted negotiations: what is known

• After the successful counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, theses about the negotiations were heard more often in Russia. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the Kremlin does not refuse negotiations with Ukraine. Moreover, there was even a hint of threats and intimidation
• In Russia, they even decided to begin to name their “conditions” to Kyiv.
• Advisor to the head of the President's Office Mikhail Podolyak stated that Ukraine would not agree to negotiations with Russia. He added that the new conditional “Minsk-3” could destroy the state.