Russia said on Dec. 25 that negotiations with the United States aimed at ending the war in Ukraine are making slow but steady progress, even as Moscow accused Western European countries of trying to derail diplomatic efforts and Kyiv warned that key issues remain unresolved.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters in Moscow that talks with Washington on a possible settlement between Russia and Ukraine were advancing, albeit gradually, and urged the United States to resist what she described as disruptive actions by European allies.
“In the negotiation process on a settlement of the Ukraine conflict, I mean in the negotiation process with the United States, there is slow but steady progress,” Zakharova said at a briefing. She added that the talks were being accompanied by “highly harmful and even malicious attempts by a group of countries, primarily Western European ones, to torpedo these efforts and derail the whole diplomatic progress that has been achieved.”…