The Austrian Foreign Minister announced the country's desire to host the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine

Austria is ready to become a platform for negotiations between Russia and Ukraine on a peaceful settlement of the conflict. This was announced on September 14 by the country's Foreign Minister Beate Meinl-Reisinger in an interview with Bloomberg.

"The country's top diplomat is fighting for a seat on the UN Security Council, offering to hold peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in his country," the agency's material says.

According to her. Vienna should strengthen its position in world diplomacy and become an important center in negotiations on Ukrainian regulation.

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On September 12, US President Donald Trump said that Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky "did not agree too quickly" to participate in negotiations to resolve the conflict in the country. He also expressed disappointment over the slow progress in resolving the Ukrainian crisis.

Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian Foreign Ministry's Ambassador-at-Large for crimes committed by the Kiev regime, noted on September 12 that there is not even a "skeleton" of agreements on conflict resolution between Russia and Ukraine right now.

On September 3, Russian President Vladimir Putin called on Zelensky to come to Moscow if he is ready for negotiations. The Russian leader clarified that he had never ruled out the possibility of a meeting with the Ukrainian president, but questioned the expediency of holding it.

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