The Russian Executive has denied this Friday that there is an understanding, with the participation of the United States, for the European Union to join the next round of talks on the conflict in Ukraine.
The U.S. negotiator and son-in-law of President Donald Trump, Jared Kushner, assured on social networks that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to "expand the next round of negotiations to include European partners," but the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has replied that it is completely unaware of that point.
"According to the information available to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this issue was not discussed during the negotiations in Moscow" between Kushner, the also U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and the Russian side, the spokesperson for Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova has indicated, thereby discrediting the version spread by the Washington representative.
For his part, the Kremlin spokesperson Dimitri Peskov has avoided commenting on the possible European participation while he does not receive from the capitals of the Old Continent a precise position on its plans and level of involvement in the process.
"Once we understand their true intentions and their willingness to contribute to the peace process, we can make a decision on holding a dialogue on the solution to the Ukrainian conflict in an expanded format," he stated in remarks collected by the Russian agency Interfax, leaving the door open only under certain conditions.
The former Russian president Dimitri Medvedev has added that, at this moment, "Europe is still not invited" to the dialogue table and has directly attacked the head of diplomacy of the European Union, Kaja Kallas, who hours earlier had called for participating in the talks and had denounced that Moscow did not want "any strong person" in the negotiation.
"Nobody wants her," Medvedev said, "not because she is a strong negotiator, but because she is stupid". With these words, the former head of state highlighted Moscow’s rejection of the current head of EU foreign policy joining the dialogue format proposed for Ukraine.