Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi previously suggested that representatives of Russia receive an invitation to such a summit, which could be held before the end of the year. They were not invited to the June meetings in Switzerland. Moscow described the meetings, which were attended by delegations from more than 90 countries, as insignificant due to the fact that it did not participate in them itself.
“This process has nothing to do with the arrangement (of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict),” Zacharov said. “This is another manifestation of fraud on the part of the Anglo-Saxons and their Ukrainian puppets,” she added.
According to her, Russia is ready to discuss “really serious proposals” that take into account the situation “on the ground”. The Reuters agency writes that this is how Russia refers to the fact that it has annexed four Ukrainian regions, which, however, it does not completely control.
According to the spokesperson of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Ukraine and its Western allies “do not think about peace”. She said this in connection with the Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region in early August and Zelensky’s repeated calls for Western allies to supply his country with long-range weapons.
Before the June summit in Switzerland, Russian President Vladimir Putin determined the conditions under which Russia would begin negotiations with Ukraine. Among them is that Kiev will give up four areas that Moscow now claims as its own. Since the entry of the Ukrainian army into the Kursk region, Moscow says that it cannot negotiate with Kyiv as long as its troops are in this Russian region.
Already in 2022, Zelensky presented a ten-point peace plan. It talks about the withdrawal of all Russian troops from Ukrainian territory, the reconfirmation of Ukraine’s borders from the time after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and a way to hold Moscow accountable for aggression against a neighboring country.
