Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says peace talks with Ukraine cannot begin due to Kyiv’s opposition
MOSCOW
Russia is ready to ensure its interests at the negotiating table with Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.
Media reports suggest Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a message to his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy through Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo, inviting him to a dialogue as the war in Ukraine enters its ninth month.
Speaking at a press conference in Moscow, Peskov said: “Our colleague from the African state was willing, said that he would have contacts (with Zelenskyy), and that he would convey Putin’s position to the Ukrainian side.”
“There is no specific message in this case,” Peskov said.
Putin informed Embalo about the Russian-Ukrainian peace talks that took place in March, that an agreement was almost achieved when the Ukrainian side “disappeared,” declared its unwillingness to continue negotiations, and subsequently adopted a law prohibiting the Ukrainian side to hold talks with Russia, the spokesman said.
“At the same time, the president stressed that such unwillingness to negotiate and the rejection of already agreed understandings occurred clearly by decree of Washington.
“Now, de facto, Russia has not changed its position, we are ready to ensure our interests at the negotiating table, we want this, but in this case we are talking about complete unwillingness on the part of Ukraine,” Peskov said.
On Feb. 24, Russia started what it calls “a special military operation” in Ukraine.
In recent weeks, Ukrainian forces have advanced a counteroffensive, while Moscow has called up more reservists and annexed four Ukrainian regions following what the West denounced as “sham” referendums.

“Russia is ready to ensure its interests at the negotiating table with Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.”
Peskov is still under the impression that once Ukraine destroy all the cockroaches in Ukraine and Crimea, that there will be negotiations. Losers don’t get any say in any negotiations, they do as they are told.
Peskov now denied the offer of negotiations, saying there never was one. Obviously it was seen as proof that the ruSSian army is losing big.
russia needs destroying now. No negotiations or ceasefires so they can invade again in another 5 years time.
Negotiating with Putler would be like trying to pin jello to a wall. You’re right, he must be humiliated first and then dragged into a meeting where someone will force his head to go either up and down or side to side.
He has to surrender at Maidan surrounded by a 1000 Azovs and relatives of all those he murdered.
That is my dream. Put the nazi in a cage on Maidan and set a toilet on top so Ukrainians could relive themselves and take pictures of the soiled animal inside.
Obviously fat boy Kim the Nork was too busy torturing his own people to take on this job, so another putler puppet: that titan of diplomacy and democracy, President Ebola of Bongo-Bongoland, got the gig.
ruZZia doesn’t get to ensure it’s “interests” at any “negotiation table with Ukraine. ruzzia will be informed of the terms of it’s surrender and withdrawal from Ukraine.
They need to get the fuck out of ALL Ukraine pre 2014, and pay for what they destroyed and stole. But there is no reparations large enough to pay for the numerous lives they took. From top to bottom schizoruscist war criminals must face justice.