The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has asked Ukraine’s partners for a “mature” stance to facilitate negotiations that could stop the open war since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a campaign that “will continue” if Moscow does not find “the will to ensure that the Kiev regime complies with what was agreed with its Western sponsors,” in a veiled reference to the proposals made by the United States during a summit held in August 2025 in Alaska.
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“We are always willing to negotiate, we are open to a negotiated solution, and we have demonstrated it on more than one occasion: the other party, the Ukrainian one, has withdrawn from the negotiations; it has withdrawn from them and then self-excluded, behaving, to put it mildly, incoherently,” said Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin to the Russian agency TASS.
In this regard, the ‘number two’ of Russian diplomacy argued that if “on the side of Ukraine’s sponsors there is a mature understanding of the need for honest and constructive dialogue that seeks to eliminate the root causes of the conflict, then perhaps prospects for dialogue will arise.”
“If there is no such willingness on the other side, and if there is no will to ensure that the Kiev regime complies with what was agreed with its Western sponsors, then we will continue the special military operation,” he warned, using the name the Kremlin gives to its invasion and campaign of attacks in Ukraine.
“We will seek to eliminate the root causes of the conflict, defend our interests by military means, acting precisely and effectively to minimize destruction and protect our population on both sides of the contact line,” Galuzin asserted.
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Russia has been insisting on the implementation of the proposals made by the Donald Trump Administration at the summit held in August 2025 in Anchorage, Alaska, which has become a source of opposing interpretations between Washington and Moscow, which appeals to what it has called the ‘spirit of Anchorage’ to end the war in Ukraine after the supposed consensus reached.
Thus, Russia points out that its president, Vladimir Putin, confirmed at that meeting a 27-point plan presented by the United States, which had previously been delivered in Moscow by special envoy Steve Witkoff for analysis, among which is the control of Donbas in exchange for freezing the war front lines.
However, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has stated that no binding agreement was signed and that, if it had been, the war would already have ended.
