According to the Washington Post, the Ukrainian offensive in Kursk, Russia, had scuppered the possibility of such negotiations. They should have been held in Qatar, at least to stop the attacks on energy infrastructure, the newspaper wrote.
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“Nobody upset anything, because there was nothing to upset,” the Russian spokeswoman said.
The only existing contacts between the two sides mainly concern prisoner exchanges, Zakharova said. She also claimed that kyiv had withdrawn from talks with Moscow in the spring of 2022, while Russia had been carrying out a full-scale invasion of Ukraine since February.
