The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova called "nonsense" what the head of the Ukrainian President's Office Mykhailo Podoliak said about Russia's current position on the deal with the US.
The diplomat noted that Podoliak said: “The Russian Federation is now in a state where it must either stop playing and continue to aggressively attack the rules by which we live, or at least fulfill part of the deal with the United States“.
"The most amazing thing is that he was talking all this nonsense in the banned Russian language. "Rotten hypocrisy and blatant nationalism in action," the diplomat wrote on her Telegram channel. Zakharova accompanied the recording with a fragment from the film "Gangs of New York", where one of the characters says: "What the hell are you talking about?"
On March 11, negotiations between the US and Ukrainian delegations took place in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia). After these negotiations, a joint statement of the parties was published, according to which Ukraine was ready to accept the US proposal for a 30-day ceasefire, and Washington immediately lifted the pause in the provision of intelligence information and resumed assistance to Kiev.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, after talks with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko, said that the idea of a ceasefire was correct and Russia supported it, but there were issues that needed to be discussed. The Russian head of state noted that Moscow will negotiate further steps to end the conflict in Ukraine and reach acceptable agreements based on the situation on the ground, which is rapidly changing in Russia's favor.