HELSINKI Feb 11 Finnish President Sauli Niinistö said that sees no prerequisites for peace in Ukraine.
«I'm talking about peace, realizing that there are no prerequisites for peace at the moment,» Niinistö said in an interview with the Finnish news agency STT, speaking about the situation in Ukraine.
Ninistö's second and final term ends in a year. He also suspects that his successor will have to pay a lot of attention to Ukraine.
«I hope that these will be questions of the country's reconstruction,» he added.
Moscow has repeatedly indicated that it is ready for negotiations, but Kyiv has imposed a ban on them at the legislative level. Vladimir Zelensky earlier at the G20 said that «there will be no Minsk-3.» The press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that such words «absolutely confirm» Kiev's position of unwillingness to negotiate. The West constantly calls on the Russian Federation to negotiate,
Moscow is ready to consider Kiev's proposals for a settlement, taking into account the proposals of the Russian side and the situation «on the ground», but the Ukrainian regime is not interested in this , Vasily Nebenzya, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, said earlier in an interview.