VLADIVOSTOK. Sept 12 (Interfax) - Kiev has to cancel the order banning any negotiations so that the negotiating process with Ukraine could begin, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
"You should ask him why he makes such statements, as I do not know. As for the negotiating process, if the United States believes Ukraine is ready for talks, let them cancel the Ukrainian president's order, which bans negotiations," Putin said at a plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum on Tuesday, in reply to a question on why U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken had been making statements on Russia-Ukraine talks.