Western nations are the ones refusing dialogue, not Russia, presidential aide Yury Ushakov has said<\/p>\n
Russia is open to resuming dialogue with European nations, presidential aide Yury Ushakov told journalists on Wednesday. Western European leaders are the ones who have shunned contact, not Moscow, he added.
\n\u201cThe Europeans are refusing all contacts\u2026 even though [Russian President Vladimir] Putin has repeatedly said that if any European leaders want to talk, they are welcome to come to Moscow.\u201d
\n\u201cFor our part, we have nothing against resuming contacts,\u201d Ushakov told a news briefing.
\nThe EU and the UK have taken a hardline stance on the Ukraine conflict and have virtually severed all contacts with Moscow since the escalation of hostilities in February 2022.<\/p>\n
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Putin blasts EU \u2018fantasy\u2019 of Russian defeat<\/p>\n
The EU has been actively supporting Kiev with both financial and military aid and has imposed unprecedented sanctions on Russia. The bloc has also been seeking to seize Russian sovereign assets frozen at the Euroclear clearing house in Belgium to fund Ukraine. Moscow has warned that it would regard any such move as outright \u201ctheft.\u201d
\nThe bloc has de facto rejected a Ukraine peace plan presented by the administration of US President Donald Trump last month, and has put forward its own set of conditions, which Moscow dismissed as \u201cunconstructive.\u201d
\nOn Tuesday, Putin said the EU is still living under the illusion that it can inflict a \u201cstrategic defeat\u201d upon Russia through the Ukraine conflict. He stated that the concept was unrealistic from the very beginning, but Brussels cannot bring itself to admit that it has been wrong all along.
\nThe bloc \u201cdoes not have a peaceful agenda. They are on the side of war,\u201d Putin told journalists on the sidelines of the \u2018Russia Calling!\u201d business forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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