Putin won’t initiate talks with European leaders – Kremlin

President Vladimir Putin is prepared for negotiations with everyone, including European leaders, but volition not initiate such, the Kremlin declared on Friday.

Moscow responded to a Reuters question on a Financial ‌Times study that European Union leaders were preparing for imaginable talks regarding the warfare with Ukraine.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the Russian premier has repeatedly expressed his willingness to “negotiate with everyone.” 

“However, arsenic Putin has repeatedly stated, we volition not initiate specified contacts aft the presumption ‌taken by ⁠the Europeans,” Peskov stressed.

The president’s spokesperson recalled that European governments cut interaction with Moscow successful 2022 aft the commencement of the warfare with Ukraine.

Peskov said “Brussels and idiosyncratic European capitals” initiated the implicit cessation of ⁠Russia’s relations with the EU, not the Russian side. 

The Prime Minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico, precocious criticized European leaders for avoiding dialog with Putin, but have interest successful the details of his speech with him.

Russia, meanwhile, is acceptable to commemorate its Victory Day connected May 9. The country’s astir important nationalist vacation marks the Soviet Union’s decision of Nazi Germany successful World War II.  

Some heads of authorities are in Moscow for the celebrations. They incl...