MOSCOW. Feb 9 (Interfax) - No one can use a tone of ultimatum with Russian President Vladimir Putin, presidential press officer Dmitry Peskov said, commenting on the Western media reports stating that German Chancellor Angela Merkel made an ultimatum during a meeting with the Russian president in the Kremlin on Friday, saying that he should agree with the peace plan proposed by Germany and France.
"We have already spoken about the tone of the negotiations. No one has ever talked and no one ever can talk with the president in a tone of ultimatum, even if they want to," Peskov told the radio station Govorit Moskva.
Moscow, Berlin and Paris earlier said, commenting on the meeting between Putin, Merkel and French President Francois Hollande in the Kremlin, that the negotiations were "substantive and constructive."
In the meantime, the foreign media have reported, citing Western diplomatic sources, that Merkel allegedly threatened to impose new sanctions on Russian companies and expand the list of people whose bank accounts abroad will be frozen if Russia rejects the new peace proposals made by Germany and France in the summit in Minsk on February 11.