Washington does not intend to negotiate with Moscow without the participation of Kyiv, the American authorities respect the attitude of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky to the dialogue with Russia and will not “dictate” to him another position. This was announced by the coordinator for strategic communications in the National Security Council of the White House John Kirby, Russian media write.
“Zelensky … does not think that now is the time … to negotiate with Mr. Putin,” Kirby explained.
He also said that the White House was addressing 30 congressmen from the Democratic Party, who called for negotiations with Russia. Biden administration “appreciates their concern”, assured Kirby.
The head of the press service of the State Department of Ned Price also stated that the decision, how to negotiate with Russia, when their time comes, will make Ukraine while the United States continues to help it on the battlefield in order to ensure later more advantageous positions in resolving .
So Kirby commented on reports of a number of representatives of Congress to the White House to activate work to resume direct negotiations with Moscow to resolve the conflict.
“Nobody wants to see the end of this so much .. like our Ukrainian partners. They stated that it will end only through diplomacy and dialogue. We do not know what this end will be and when this happens, – said Price. – But we do not know this primarily because we have not seen any signs of Russia’s readiness to work on the path of diplomacy and dialogue. “