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Russia will not impose conditions on who represents Europe in possible negotiations over Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday, as EU leaders moved to define their negotiating team.
“We cannot and do not want to set conditions for their negotiating team. Framing the issue in this way is completely wrong,” Peskov told the Telegram channel Yunashev Live, according to RIA Novosti.
He said Moscow would rather engage with European representatives and assess whether their position could contribute to resolving the conflict.
“It would be better to speak with the Europeans and see to what extent their position could help advance the peace process,” Peskov said, according to Russian state news agency TASS.
At an informal summit in Dublin, EU leaders approved the composition of a delegation expected to participate in expert-level negotiations on Ukraine, APA reported.
European Council President Antonio Costa said EU institutions and members of the “coalition of the willing” would represent European interests in the process.
The team is expected to include representatives from the European Commission, the European Council, Germany, France, Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom.
Peskov said Moscow did not intend to influence who Europe selected for the negotiations.
Russian President Vladimir Putin met U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner at the Kremlin on Thursday.
The U.S. representatives then traveled to Dublin, where they met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and held consultations with national security advisers from Ukraine, Germany, Italy, the EU, France, Ireland and Poland, according to RIA Novosti.
Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said European countries were seeking to join discussions on Ukraine but needed to decide whether they wanted war or peace.
Ushakov argued that their actions so far indicated a desire to continue the conflict.
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