Moscow and Washington have opposite approaches to the developments in Ukraine, which stem, to a larger extent, from Washington’s policy, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on Tuesday, TASS reports.
"We have diametrically opposed approaches to what is going on in Ukraine. Everything that is happening there now, to a larger extent, stems from the policy Washington has been pursuing for years," he said.
According to the Russian senior diplomat, Washington has been deliberately seeking to make an "anti-Russia" out of Ukraine and has been "depriving the Kyiv authorities of any possibility to do at least something to implement the Minsk agreements." "The United States’ role in this tragedy is absolutely destructive. We condemn this American position," Ryabkov stressed. "But that is in the past now. Our efforts are focused entirely on the goals of the special military operation."
Contacts between Russia and the United States were not interrupted, but Washington chose to freeze the dialogue on a number of major issues, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told journalists on Tuesday.
"The contacts were not interrupted, and we are not initiating the conclusion of contacts with the US, we understand the importance of discussing the current issues. But I would like to note that the initiatives to terminate the dialogue on number of major tracks have been made recently by the Americans themselves," Ryabkov noted.
"This is their choice. I think that some time later, Washington will realize that, for example, strategic stability needs to be discussed, and that this is the issue that needs to be worked out," the senior diplomat added. "The topic is extremely complex, and simply freezing the case because of political pressure is about the same as declaring a ban on civil aviation flights. People have been overcome with hysteria, [they] have lost their self-control and are making such moves," Ryabkov maintained.
