(Moscow) Moscow said Thursday that talks on Ukraine in the absence of Russia had “no sense”, after Switzerland announced the day before that it would organize such a conference in June without Russian representation.
“We have said many times that a negotiation process without Russia makes no sense,” declared Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov, when asked about the initiative taken by Switzerland to bring together the 15th and 16th. June representatives from around a hundred countries.
Russian diplomatic spokesperson Maria Zakharova, for her part, affirmed that any action for Ukraine which “ignores Russia’s position” was “detached from reality” and had “no perspective”.
She also castigated the “peace formula” put forward by Volodymyr Zelensky and which essentially provides for a withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukrainian territory, financial reparations from Moscow and the creation of a special court to judge those responsible. Russians.
“It is common knowledge that the “Zelensky formula” does not consider compromises, alternatives and completely ignores the proposals of China, Brazil, African and Arab states,” lamented Mr.me Zakharova.
She also estimated that we could “not trust Switzerland either”, which “defends Ukraine’s positions, supports the Kyiv regime, applies anti-Russian sanctions and adopts strategies which exclude Russia from the system of European security”.
“Switzerland cannot be a neutral host in such conditions and even less a mediator, by definition,” she insisted.
Moscow had already estimated on Wednesday that this conference was a project by the United States intended to put pressure on Russia.
“We are convinced that our partners in Asia, Africa and Latin America will be vigilant and will not allow themselves to be drawn into a new anti-Russian adventure,” Ms.me Zakharova on Thursday.