the Kremlin does not see topics for discussion

Moscow does not need to discuss Ukrainian-Russian relations in the presence of the United States, so Putin does not see topics for discussion at a possible summit.

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The Kremlin has no understanding of what issues and topics can be the subject of discussion at the Ukraine-Russia-US trilateral summit, initiated by President Volodymyr Zelensky. Topics for discussion were not sent to them, and there is the Minsk format for discussing the war in Donbass. This was stated by the press secretary of Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov at a media briefing, informs Russian news agency TASS.

“Why [привлекать] United States to discuss bilateral Russian-Ukrainian relations, when they are now completely and completely indexed to the implementation of the Minsk agreements, that is, to be more precise, to the lack of progress? I don’t think the United States of America is needed for this,” Peskov said.

If the summit becomes a platform for discussing the Donbass, it will be necessary to find out what Ukraine plans to discuss with Moscow, Peskov said. Putin’s spokesman repeated the thesis that Russia is allegedly not a party to the conflict in the war in Donbas.

“Russia is not a party to the conflict…does this mean that they place more hope on the United States and less hope they place on the Normandy Format? Does this mean that they no longer consider it necessary to somehow focus on the implementation those commitments that were recorded in the Normandy format? Unfortunately, there are no answers to all this yet,” said the Russian Presidential Speaker

According to Peskov, the Kremlin does not understand what the three of them can talk about even in the absence of the topic of Donbass.

“Perhaps Kiev means some other topics … But we all have yet to find out,” Dmitry Peskov said.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said about the talks at the table with Russia and Ukraine that there is nothing to report yet. About this she said at a media briefing on January 14, according to the website of the American cable network G-SPAN.

Former President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky offered to hold tripartite talks with Putin. Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov was reported to have stated that Tensions on the Ukrainian border pose a great danger.

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