Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that if the letter of the deputy head of the presidential administration Dmitry Kozak was published in the Ukrainian media, then this is not the most correct way to conduct negotiations.
At the same time, he stressed that he had not yet had the opportunity to familiarize himself with the publication. However, if Kozak’s letter was indeed published, then, according to Peskov, “this is not the most correct way of doing business in terms of very difficult negotiations on the settlement of the conflict in southeastern Ukraine.”
He also stressed that the information about the curtailment of the negotiation process in the Donbass is a distortion. According to him, Dmitry Kozak did not write or say this.
According to Peskov, Russia remains committed to the Minsk agreements on the Donbass, they are uncontested.
Earlier, the Ukrainian media reported that Kozak wrote a letter to the adviser to German Chancellor Angela Merkel with copies for representatives of France and Ukraine. In it, he allegedly called the negotiations on the Donbass at the level of political advisers meaningless and suggested abandoning this format.