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Vladimir Putin’s attitude to the President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, has changed, since the latter first presented himself as a democratic president ready for dialogue, said in the program “Moscow”. The Kremlin. Putin is the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov. But this image is not correlated with the unprecedented suppression and criminal prosecution of political opponents, he added.
Peskov named two reasons that prevent the meeting between Putin and Zelensky. First, Ukraine refuses to implement the Minsk agreements, is looking for a replacement for them. “Ukraine is consistently trying to dilute the importance of the Minsk agreements, saying that they need to be replaced with something, that they are already kind of inanimate, these Minsk agreements,” Peskov stressed.
Ukraine also continues to call Russia a participant in the conflict. This is unacceptable for Moscow, as well as for other members of the Normandy Four.
In general, both the representatives of the Quartet and Ukraine individually could say anything if the Minsk agreements were implemented. But they are not fulfilled at all. The West has not imposed any sanctions against Kiev for this, Peskov added.