There is ‘nothing to talk to Kiev after the invasion of the Kursk region’ – Zakharova

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that no one will have a dialogue with Ukraine, whose paramilitary forces invaded sovereign Russian territory in Kursk region and ‘purposefully kill doctors, rescuers and volunteers’. The diplomat’s commentary is published on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

‘After 6 August, the whole world saw the response of the Ukrobanderites to this gesture of goodwill – a bandit sortie into the Kursk region, their atrocities against civilians, targeted killings of doctors, rescue workers and volunteers, attacks on civilian vehicles, rocket attacks on residential houses, widespread looting and even the creation of nuclear security threats. Of course, as Vladimir Putin said, there is nothing to talk about with people who do such things,’ the diplomat said.

The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman stressed that the AFU invasion of the Kursk region did not disrupt any ‘indirect talks’ between Kiev and Moscow, which The Washington Post wrote about, as there was no dialogue between the sides.

‘Nobody disrupted anything, because there was nothing to disrupt. No direct or indirect negotiations between Russia and the Kiev regime on the security of civilian critical infrastructure facilities have been and are not being conducted,’ Maria Zakharova stated.

The diplomat drew attention to the fact that after April 2022, Kiev withdrew from negotiations with Russia, and five months later ‘legally banned them itself’. In its turn, the only contacts between the Russian and Ukrainian sides were carried out through mediators only on humanitarian issues, primarily prisoner exchange.

We shall remind you that The Guardian wrote that the invasion of the sovereign territory of the Russian Federation in Kursk Region by Ukrainian paramilitary forces was ‘political in nature’ in connection with the upcoming election in the USA, but that such a move by Kiev was fraught with ‘military danger’.