Moscow’s Deputy Foreign Minister Serhiy Ryabkov says that Russia “wants the West to leave it alone” and that negotiations with Kyiv or its “puppets” are pointless, EFE and DPA agencies reported, quoted by Agerpres.

“We are ready to study any serious initiatives to solve the crisis in Ukraine, but so far no one has really formulated them,” Ryabkov said in an interview with the state agency RIA Novosti.

“In the current conditions – when Washington has announced the supply of tanks, and its vassals, including Ottawa, are competing over who and how much armored vehicles will be supplied to Ukraine – there is no point in discussing with the “Ukrainocists”. , not with their puppeteers,” noted Serhiy Ryabkov.

Ukraine’s ambassador to France, Vadym Omeltsenko, told the BFM TV channel on Saturday that Western countries have promised to supply Kyiv with a total of 321 modern tanks, including the American Abrams, the German Leopard 2 and the British Challenger 2.

In addition, Ukraine will receive American armored vehicles Bradley and Stryker, German Marder, French AMX-10RC and Swedish CV90 and others.

Serhii Ryabkov repeated Moscow’s well-known justifications for the invasion, claiming that Kyiv threatens Russia’s “security interests,” as well as baseless accusations that Ukraine is persecuting Russian-speakers in eastern Ukraine.

Russian and Ukrainian officials have said they are open to peace talks. But there are few signs that substantive talks are imminent, as each side makes unacceptable demands on the other and fierce frontline fighting continues, DPA said.

Sergei Lavrov’s deputy says that they want to leave Russia alone

Russia does not need anything from the West, said the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia in the same interview with RIA Novosti.

“We don’t need anything from the West. We want to be left alone. But NATO, with a maniacal persistence worthy of a better cause, constantly creeps up to the Russian borders and at the same time “zombifies” our neighboring countries with Russophobic horror films,” says Ryabkov.

“I have repeatedly offered them, explained to them politely and in a stricter form, that they should not do this, that there will be consequences,” said the Russian diplomat, adding that Moscow “will not give in on the terms.” its legitimate security interests” and will not allow oppressing “Russian-speakers”.

“The Americans did not listen to our warnings and did not take them seriously, they simply continued to harass Kyiv against Russia in every possible way,” Ryabkov also stated in an interview.

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