MOSCOW. Feb 21 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has every reason not to view his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky as a person who could implement the Minsk Agreements, Russian press secretary Dmitry Peskov said.
"Putin presently has every reason not to regard President Zelensky as someone who is ready and willing to implement the Minsk Package of Measures," Peskov said in an interview with Pavel Zarubin in the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin show on the Rossiya 1 (VGTRK) television.
If one looks at all the statements by Zelensky in their entirety, they indicate that "he a) cannot, b) doesn't want and c) won't do that," Peskov said.
"The Ukrainian side and Mr. Zelensky declares as the principal goal a discussion of settlement in the southeast. But we are no party to the conflict. And the discussion in the southeast must be between President Zelensky and representatives of the southeast itself. And this is where the problem is. They don't want to understand it," he said.
Peskov was then asked whether that is the reason why the Kremlin "doesn't answer Zelensky's calls."
"We ask the question: 'What do you propose to discuss?' We get no answer," he said.
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