Talks between Moscow and Kyiv to position and cease Russia’s close to -month army campaign in seasoned-Western Ukraine have stalled, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated on Friday.

“They (negotiations) have stalled now,” he said after talks together with his Kazakh counterpart in Moscow, adding that Russia has still had not acquired an answer to a modern-day thought despatched around five days in the past.

The Russian foreign minister additionally said he changed into beneath the impact Kyiv may not want to preserve the talks.

“It is very strange for me to hear everyday statements by various Ukrainian representatives, including the president and his advisers, that makes one think that they do not need these negotiations at all, that they have resigned themselves to their fate,” Lavrov added.

Kremlin aide Vladimir Medinsky, who is Russia’s chief negotiator with Kyiv authorities, said however that he had spoken to his Ukrainian counterpart on Friday.

Talks have continued since early in the fighting but offered no concrete results.

Kyiv said last week that negotiations with Russia to end the war was “extremely difficult”.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking to EU chief Charles Michel in advance Friday, accused Kyiv of missing consistency in its demands at the talks and not being geared up “to search for collectively proper solutions”, the Kremlin stated.