The Russian Foreign Ministry announced Kiev's desire to avoid direct negotiations with Moscow

Ukraine will use all available arsenal to disrupt dialogue with Russia, Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian Foreign Ministry's ambassador-at-large for crimes committed by the Kiev regime, told Izvestia. According to him, Ukraine seeks to avoid a one-on-one conversation with Russia and to draw Europe into this format.

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"The United States and Russia want to find a political and diplomatic solution, and it will consist precisely in achieving the goals that Russia sets for itself. Ukraine wants to play up the European agenda, which is the need to continue military operations as much as possible. Ukraine wants to involve European countries in every possible way so that they disrupt the negotiations in any case. And they will try to use prohibited tools as much as possible for this," he said.

Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow was ready to hold the next round of talks with Ukraine in Istanbul on June 2.

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