The Russian Foreign Ministry representative Maria Zakharova criticized France's proposal to make a mediator in peace talks between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. According to her, the interests of Russia are not taken into account. The secretary of the Security Council of Russia Sergey Shoiga repeated the Narratives of the Kremlin, who reject the plan for the peaceful settlement of the war in Ukraine and deny the legitimacy of President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky.
Instead, a bet on vague and maximalist demands of Russian President Vladimir Putin, which remains unchanged since February 2022. Kremlin officials are wrongly portrayed by Zelensky as an illegitimate loser, and the Ukrainian peace plan as excluding Russia. So in the Russian Federation they try to justify their refusal to participate in the negotiations and undermine the international support of Ukraine and its peace plan, writes ISW analysts.
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