Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s answer to a media question on a telephone conversation between President of China Xi Jinping and President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky

Question: The leaders of China and Ukraine had a telephone conversation. It is common knowledge that Kiev has requested such a conversation for a long time. What do you think of this? Could this provide a positive impetus to resolving the situation in Ukraine?

Maria Zakharova: We have noted Chinese efforts to initiate a negotiating process. We see general similarity between our principled approaches and the provisions of the policy document published by the Chinese Foreign Ministry on February 24, 2023.

At the same time, we believe that the problem lies not in a shortage of good plans. So far, the Kiev regime is openly rejecting any reasonable initiative to settle the Ukraine crisis through political and diplomatic approaches. Moreover, it links its possible consent to negotiate with ultimatums containing a priori unrealistic demands.

Ukraine’s authorities and their Western handlers have already shown their ability to delay any peace initiative. They openly admit that the Minsk agreements were needed only to gain time to build offensive potential. In the spring of 2022, Kiev unexpectedly rejected the virtually completed peace agreements reached by the sides at Kiev’s proposal.

Vladimir Zelensky even signed legislation banning any talks with President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. So, these Washington-controlled puppets can hardly adequately respond to any calls for peace.

Vladimir Zelensky heads a country that has officially banned Communist ideology and the communist party. At the same time, Ukraine has been conducting a so-called de-communisation process for many years. Indicatively, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada’s Committee on Foreign Affairs and Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation Alexander Merezhko recently noted that the international community’s recognition of Taiwan as part of China was a communist misconception. Obviously, monstrous hypocrisy is a distinctive feature of Ukrainian-style democracy, something that has been imported from the West.