Talks in Davos on Ukraine’s peace proposals will lead to nothing unless Russia participates in them, the Kremlin said on Monday, as quoted by Reuters and Agerpres.

Dmitry Peskov with Vladimir PutinPhoto: WillWest News / Profimedia Images

“It’s just talk for the sake of talk,” Kremlin press secretary Dmytro Peskov said when asked about this topic.

“This process cannot be aimed at achieving a specific result for an obvious reason – we do not participate. Without our participation, any discussions are devoid of any prospect of leading to any result,” he concluded.

More than 80 countries debated in Switzerland on Sunday to agree on a formula for peace in Ukraine proposed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, but co-organizers admitted they were far from ready to include Russia in the debate.

National security advisers from 83 countries took part in the fourth round of talks based on Zelenskyi’s 10-point proposals for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine, nearly two years after the Russian invasion began.

The negotiations, co-chaired by the head of Zelensky’s administration, Andriy Yermak, and the Swiss Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ignatius Cassis, took place at the luxurious ski resort of Davos, a day before the opening of the five-day summit of the World Economic Forum, which gathers the economic and political elite of the planet, a summit in which the Ukrainian president will also participate .

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