Chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Valentina Matvienko. Archive photoMOSCOW, May 19.The dialogue between Russia and the West may resume after the completion of the military operation in Ukraine, Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko said in an interview with Izvestia.
"I think there is a chance the dialogue will be resumed when we complete the special military operation — and I don’t doubt for a minute that it will be completed successfully", she noted.
The speaker of the Federation Council stressed that Russia is still open for dialogue.» But not according to the rules invented by someone, but on the basis of international law, mutual respect. Toward a dialogue that would ensure equal, indivisible, universal security on the European continent,» Matvienko concluded. On February 24, Russia launched a special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine . As Vladimir Putin emphasized, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» The main goal of the operation in the department was called the liberation of Donbass.