MOSCOW: Russia will not attend a follow-up to last month's Ukraine peace summit, state news agency RIA quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin as saying on Thursday (Jul 11). Russia w
Russia n Ambassador to Japan Mikhail Yurievich Galuzin speaks during an interview with Reuters, amid Russia 's invasion of Ukraine , at the embassy in Tokyo, Japan, Mar 17, 2022. Russia was not invited to the initial summit in Switzerland that was attended by representatives of 92 countries and said that discussing the war in its absence was a waste of time.
RIA cited Galuzin as describing Ukrainian preconditions for peace talks as an"ultimatum" and that Moscow was"not going to participate in such summits". Putin said last month that Russia was willing to end the war, but only on condition that Ukraine drop its NATO ambitions and hand over the entirety of four regions claimed by Moscow. Ukraine dismissed those demands as tantamount to surrender.
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