Russia and Ukraine had been ready to make peace, but Kiev refused to sign the final deal at the urging of Washington, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday. Speaking with the national Radio Kossuth, Orban agreed with former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder that it was the US that scuttled the Istanbul peace talks…
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The EU promise of negotiations with Ukraine on eventual membership is a shallow ruse, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday, using a ‘dangling carrot’ metaphor. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Wednesday that she had recommended launching membership talks with Ukraine and Moldova, once the two countries have implemented the reforms required by…
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Those that do should be prepared for “provocations,” the deputy foreign minister has said Russians considering “frivolous” trips to the US should think again, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on Thursday, warning that American authorities have ramped up arrests on pretexts of trade violations.
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