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| Ukraine Reveals Reasons For Not Wanting To Negotiate Peace With Russia |
Our negotiating position is actually quite weak, so we wouldn't want to sit at the table if we were in this position. We need to turn it around in some way, Arakhamia told news outlet Axios.
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He noted that despite the frozen negotiations, the Ukrainian delegation held telephone talks with the Russian side once or twice a week. "Both sides clearly recognize that at this time, there is no place for negotiations," Arakhamia said. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24.
The countries have held several rounds of talks since but have failed to reach any agreement. "There is no dialogue between Russia and the United States regarding Ukraine," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with Sputnik. "No, nothing," Peskov said in response to a related question.
Today (16/6/2022) marks one year since the Russia-US summit in Geneva. Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden meet in Geneva on June 16, 2021.
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Meanwhile, Peskov said the media should be professional and refrain from asking questions about the possibility of nuclear war. "I believe that today the mass media should be professional enough to refrain from asking such questions, while interviewees should be wise enough to refrain from answering such questions," Peskov said.